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Good News for Consumers, Holiday Sales Barely Rise; Worst Shopping Season Since

By Mish   Follow   Wed, 26 Dec 2012, 12:31pm   468 views   13 comments
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Good News for Consumers, Holiday Sales Barely Rise; Worst Shopping Season Since 2008
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1. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 304 threads 5,307 comments

   1   12:53pm Wed 26 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike (3)   hmm you know what this situation call for? Higher gas prices, CNN has been saying all year how higher gas prices help the middle class.

2. 121212 Follow Befriend 83 threads 687 comments male

   2   3:26pm Wed 26 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike (1)   CaptainShuddup says hmm you know what this situation call for? Higher gas prices, CNN has been saying all year how higher gas prices help the middle class. Link? I would like to read that please.

3. 121212 Follow Befriend 83 threads 687 comments male

   3   10:34am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   So as usual, Cpt, your full of hot air.

4. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 304 threads 5,307 comments

   4   10:41am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (2)   121212 says So as usual, Cpt, your full of hot air. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/06/cheap-gas-hurts-the-middle-class/

5. 121212 Follow Befriend 83 threads 687 comments male

   5   11:12am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   CaptainShuddup says CNN has been saying all year Keep going, one article is not all year !

6. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 304 threads 5,307 comments

   6   11:25am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/10/05/4-gas-get-used-to-it/ http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/25/news/economy/gas-prices/index.htm http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/11/29/CNN-Now-Pushing-for-a-Gas-Tax-Hike http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/10/10/opinion-gas-prices-are-the-government-and-obamas-fault/ Those bastards... http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/10/news/economy/Iran-oil/index.htm

7. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 304 threads 5,307 comments

   7   11:26am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   You know I could do this all day, it's only my pet peeve. That I have had almost 5 years to research.

8. 121212 Follow Befriend 83 threads 687 comments male

   8   11:28am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike (1)   You may be onto something, it's flimsy and circumstantial at best as gas prices are much lower now than last year. I think with the new 55 MPG standards coming soon will create more revenue for the government . Also Gas will drop more as the world enters another recession. and don't forget USA will be a net exporter of energy come 2016 in oil and gas.

9. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 304 threads 5,307 comments

   9   11:50am Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   121212 says and don't forget USA will be a net exporter of energy come 2016 in oil and gas. I forgot it just as soon as it was touted. I bet you bathe in propaganda don't you? You lather it up thick and foamy and smear it on your nether regions, then rinse with renewable cool aid.

10. 121212 Follow Befriend 83 threads 687 comments male

    10   12:27pm Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   I expect gas to be $6+ a gallon with 55mpg, you should too. But while we are in recession until about 2015 gas will remain lower. The fed as we know is devaluing the dollar. If we remain in this current cycle like Japan then you will see more of the same for 20yrs+ If interst rates go up and gas goes up, the economy will be doing well.

11. bob2356 Follow Befriend 3 threads 2,564 comments

    11   12:49pm Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   121212 says USA will be a net exporter of energy come 2016 in oil and gas. 121212 says I expect gas to be $6+ a gallon with 55mpg That doesn't make any sense. Huge supplies of oil are being freed up with fracking. The only constraint on gas prices will be refining.

12. Nobody Follow Befriend 10 threads 274 comments San Jose, CA

    12   12:50pm Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   It is given that we need to raise the tax revenue somehow. This article fails to mention how gasoline tax or consumption tax would impact difference class of people. If you are earning only $10K a year and pay $100 a month for gasoline, the impact is 12% of whatever tax increase. And if you are earning $1M a year and paying $100 a month, the impact is less than 0.12% of whatever tax increase. If I were earning $1M, I would definitely say increase the consumption tax. Cause it has less impact on me. If you read the article without much thought into it, you fall into the trap.

13. Thedaytoday Follow Befriend 46 threads 530 comments

    13   12:50pm Thu 27 Dec 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Like Cpt suggets taxes will likely go up.