Erick Erickson saying that David Perdue's people have pulled all their ads in Georgia this final week. He's only got 3 scheduled events. Seems like everyone knows it's all over but the crying.
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Question? Does the right have a problem with their messaging which, allegedly, promotes hate speech and violent acts? Are politicians on the right not doing enough to condemn talk about these as legitimate political tools? I'm reading that the right does, in fact, have these problems.
I'm not sure. In the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting, a case is being made by progs that violent acts motivated by nationalism and white supremacist ideology is afflicting the right. I can't help but think back to the summer of of 2020 when the leftists and blacks absorbed by the extremist ideology of BLM (among others) torched city after city and businesses after businesses. The impact of that violence, not condemned by anyone on the left, in fact praised by some, was long lasting. Is this a chicken or the egg sort of thing? Does CRT being foisted on public education by progressive elites have anything to do with an overall increase in politically or racially motivated violence?Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
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The ultimate effect of higher tax rates is they discourage workers from taking on extra hours, or employers from making productivity-enhancing investments. These effects shrink supply and tend to make inflation worse.
I'll have a medium fry and a Frosty please DSL...Shut the fuck up Donny!
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...not to mention the fact that raising corporate tax rates...which is really what the Progs want to do...is a cost that is ultimately passed onto consumers thus creating more inflation.
Don't listen to former Dem advisors on how to reduce inflation...it's like asking CGVT to not dress in drag anymore...Shut the fuck up Donny!
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Originally posted by Jeff Buchanan View PostQuestion? Does the right have a problem with their messaging which, allegedly, promotes hate speech and violent acts? Are politicians on the right not doing enough to condemn talk about these as legitimate political tools? I'm reading that the right does, in fact, have these problems.
I'm not sure. In the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting, a case is being made by progs that violent acts motivated by nationalism and white supremacist ideology is afflicting the right. I can't help but think back to the summer of of 2020 when the leftists and blacks absorbed by the extremist ideology of BLM (among others) torched city after city and businesses after businesses. The impact of that violence, not condemned by anyone on the left, in fact praised by some, was long lasting. Is this a chicken or the egg sort of thing? Does CRT being foisted on public education by progressive elites have anything to do with an overall increase in politically or racially motivated violence?
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Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View PostErick Erickson saying that David Perdue's people have pulled all their ads in Georgia this final week. He's only got 3 scheduled events. Seems like everyone knows it's all over but the crying.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
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Originally posted by Jeff Buchanan View PostQuestion? Does the right have a problem with their messaging which, allegedly, promotes hate speech and violent acts? Are politicians on the right not doing enough to condemn talk about these as legitimate political tools? I'm reading that the right does, in fact, have these problems.
I'm not sure. In the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting, a case is being made by progs that violent acts motivated by nationalism and white supremacist ideology is afflicting the right. I can't help but think back to the summer of of 2020 when the leftists and blacks absorbed by the extremist ideology of BLM (among others) torched city after city and businesses after businesses. The impact of that violence, not condemned by anyone on the left, in fact praised by some, was long lasting. Is this a chicken or the egg sort of thing? Does CRT being foisted on public education by progressive elites have anything to do with an overall increase in politically or racially motivated violence?
I wasn't more than a few weeks ago, I reckon, where I noted that the NY subway shooter was not representative of the Woke Anti-Racist Kendi bullshit -- that he was just a nutjob. I also noted that if he were white and shooting black folks it'd be a way different story.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
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Appreciated the post on taxes/inflation. I flatly disagree. It'd seem like raising taxes on the rich would increase the demand problem. The rich already have enough disposable income to act as buyers in the market and, as we all know, The Chairman is talking about roughly 1-2% of the buyers. What the rich do have is income to invest in businesses that produce, you know, goods. Higher taxes on the rich do definitely reduce that. So, man -- I really don't see it.
Summers is right, I guess, if it's an across the board tax raise -- tax money out of consumers hands across the board. But I really don't think he's right if we're only talking 1-2% of the consumers and we all know that's what The Chairman and the Ds mean.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
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Jim Geraghty with a very good piece on diesel costs: https://www.nationalreview.com/the-m...really-rising/
Tl;dr -- you can have all the supply in the world, but it needs refined and we're losing refinery capacity and "Big Oil" has literally zero incentive to build any additional capacity.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
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Originally posted by iam416 View PostDSL
Appreciated the post on taxes/inflation. I flatly disagree. It'd seem like raising taxes on the rich would increase the demand problem. The rich already have enough disposable income to act as buyers in the market and, as we all know, The Chairman is talking about roughly 1-2% of the buyers. What the rich do have is income to invest in businesses that produce, you know, goods. Higher taxes on the rich do definitely reduce that. So, man -- I really don't see it.
Summers is right, I guess, if it's an across the board tax raise -- tax money out of consumers hands across the board. But I really don't think he's right if we're only talking 1-2% of the consumers and we all know that's what The Chairman and the Ds mean.
What no one has said is that the money taxed away from the rich or the corporations does not just vanish from the economy. It goes to the government who spends it. If the government would take the money out of circulation, there might be some reduction in inflation (and an inevitable recession). But the government doesn't "save" the taxes. It spends the tax money. The way it spends the money is highly inflationary since a good portion goes to non-productive people with a high propensity to spend. More of it goes to government workers who produce little.
This is why Jack Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump used "supply-side economics" to stimulate the economy (and in Reagan's case to beat inflation). Cutting taxes may increase spending (inflationary) but it also increases supply as folks work longer and harder because they get to keep what they earn. Taxing is about substituting government spending priorities for individual spending priorities. That is always an inflationary trade because government seldom gets true "value" for its expenditures.
Look at the student loan situation. To fund Obamacare, the Ds decided to take over the student loan business from banks (not in competition, but by law). Projections showed gobs of money available. Today, we see the results of government banking expertise. $1.5 Trillion in unpaid student debt and Obamacare raising the national debt annually.
My policy prescription would be to cut welfare as Clinton and Gingrich did in the 1996-98 period. The economy picked up and the country ran a surplus. I doubt if this is possible now with critical theory having replaced common sense in Washington.
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