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thunderlips11 says

I wonder how many "Free Marketeers" would allow neighbors to run a convenience store out of the McMansion next store. They'd be running, not walking, to the Code Department to complain - Home Values are at stake. Forget it if a neighbor was selling his secret special BBQ Ribs on his front driveway to pay for his kid's college fund. POLICE!!! NOW!!! A FRONTAL, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON MY PROPERTY VALUES!!!

Careful you are starting sound like a free market guy.

tax cuts on people are like electoral candy

tax raises on people are like electoral hemlock

raise taxes on the Kochs and they just send another billion or whatever to their message machines to oppose you

the 1%'s vote doesn't matter, but their money does

raise taxes on the middle class and they'll vote for someone else next time

Democrats learned this hard way in '94, but those tax rises did give us a pretty good economy in the 1990s eventually.

Before the Bushies took over we were afraid of running out of new treasuries to sell, LOL

debt held by public less Fed / GDP

Bellingham Bill says

Before the Bushies took over we were afraid of running out of new treasuries to sell, LOL

Greenspan famously told Clinton no widespread job training programs and science incubators, because that would create too much debt.

Then he went whole hog printing far more money for the GWOT.

anonymous says

Until the governor understands that, he will have the Republican majority doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

This is not the definition of insanity.

I work with plenty of insane people who know better than to do the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

Not a complete failure:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rexsinquefield/2015/04/02/early-results-show-income-tax-cuts-making-kansas-a-more-prosperous-state/

anonymous says

Good comedy is hard to find - thanks for posting that.

You obviously don't read the NYT or any of the many TV stations on the major networks.

http://patrick.net/misc/Warning+For+S.F.+and+Silicon+Valley

Those companies have massively inflated valuations but the real clunkers are all the companies that Patrick has listed on this site that never have and never will make a profit yet employee tens of thousands of people at very high salaries who pay very high rents.

No no, the only states that can afford to be blue states have to make a lot of money in order to afford the parasites.

indigenous says

No no, the only states that can afford to be blue states have to make a lot of money in order to afford the parasites.

DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

Once the roads are reduced to ruin from earthquakes and unemployment runs to 92 percent

You cannot have true conservatism if smelting of metals is allowed.

We must ride dinosaurs and use only wood and bone implements, as Jesus did.

Allende also came to office during the Nixon Shock, 1973 Stock Market Crash, and was killed right before the oil crisis.

Here's an interesting story about the kind of folks Pinochet worked closely with:

https://theamericanscholar.org/the-torture-colony/#.VYuVeqbhU7A.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-schfer-nazi-colonel-who-established-an-antisemitic-colony-in-chile-after-the-war-1981014.html

Ain't it interesting that Austrian Economists, Actual Nazis, and South American Dictators seem to have a very cooperative history?

Michael Townley is also an interesting person. Nice lifetime on the taxpayer dime under the Witness Protection program, and only 5 years for killing a former diplomat in DC.