Democrats Train to No Where Taking Its Final Gasping Breaths

[Weatherman2020]

Tens of millions pissed down the drain for paperwork in California that could have done silly things like upgrade dams, build new dams, build prisons, fixed and built new roads.........

Just hours before the report was issued, results of the state’s latest cap-and-trade auction of greenhouse gas emission allowances – the only source of ongoing bullet train funds – were released and once again it produced almost no money.

…A $9.95 billion bond issue that voters approved nine years ago was on hold for years because of lawsuits, and project managers have searched, so far in vain, for other sources of money for the $64 billion project.

In desperation, Brown and the Legislature gave the project 25 percent of cap-and-trade auction proceeds, and officials have been weighing a construction loan secured by auction money. However, recent auctions have generated very scant returns, and without a reliable revenue stream, securing a loan would be impossible.

The plunge in auction interest has been attributed to a glut of state-issued allowances and uncertainty about the program’s legality and future. Brown wants the Legislature to reauthorize it beyond the current 2020 expiration date, but so far has been unable to muster enough votes.

Bullet train suffers two big setbacks that could be fatal

 

[midcan5]

That is the reason European and Asian nations fund these projects through government. America is falling behind the rest of the world because our tax structure allows the Americans who gain most from America to do little in the way of supporting it. Americans are the only people on earth that think failing bridges and roads are the price we have to pay so the wealthy and corporations can pay less in taxes and outsource production to save a few bucks. The Free Trade god is a mighty god but cares little about building up the nation.

"There is no historical evidence that tax cuts spur economic growth. The highest period of growth in U.S. history (1933-1973) also saw its highest tax rates on the rich: 70 to 91 percent. During this period, the general tax rate climbed as well, but it reached a plateau in 1969, and growth slowed down five years later. Almost all rich nations have higher general taxes than the U.S., and they are growing faster as well." Tax cuts spur economic growth

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan: Kim Phillips-Fein: 9780393059304: Amazon.com: Books

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned." UBI and the Flat Tax

"'The Culture of Contentment' is a deliberate misnomer. Galbraith is using irony here, irony little short of sarcasm. What he really means is the culture of smugness. His argument is that until the mid 1970s round about the oil crisis the western democracies accepted the idea of a mixed economy and with that went economic social progress. Since then, however, a prominent class has emerged, materially stable and even very rich, which, far from trying to help the less fortunate, has developed a whole infrastructure - politically and intellectually - to marginalize and even demonize them. Aspects of this include tax reductions to the better off and welfare cuts to the worst off, small 'manageable wars' to maintain the unifying force of a common enemy, the idea of 'unmitigated laissez-faire as embodiment of freedom,' and a desire for cutback in government. The most important collective end result of all this, Galbraith says, is a blindness and a deafness among the 'contented' to the growing problems of society. While they are content to spend, or have spent in their name, trillions of dollars to defeat relatively minor enemy figures... they are extremely unwilling to spend money on the underclass nearer home. In a startling paragraph he quotes figures to show that 'the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by 28% in just 10 years from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32 million in 1988 by then nearly one in five children was born in poverty in the United States more than twice as high a proportion as in Canada or Germany." Peter Watson

 

[Weatherman2020]

That is the reason European and Asian nations fund these projects through government. America is falling behind the rest of the world because our tax structure allows the Americans who gain most from America to do little in the way of supporting it. Americans are the only people on earth that think failing bridges and roads are the price we have to pay so the wealthy and corporations can pay less in taxes and outsource production to save a few bucks. The Free Trade god is a mighty god but cares little about building up the nation.

"There is no historical evidence that tax cuts spur economic growth. The highest period of growth in U.S. history (1933-1973) also saw its highest tax rates on the rich: 70 to 91 percent. During this period, the general tax rate climbed as well, but it reached a plateau in 1969, and growth slowed down five years later. Almost all rich nations have higher general taxes than the U.S., and they are growing faster as well." Tax cuts spur economic growth

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan: Kim Phillips-Fein: 9780393059304: Amazon.com: Books

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned." UBI and the Flat Tax

"'The Culture of Contentment' is a deliberate misnomer. Galbraith is using irony here, irony little short of sarcasm. What he really means is the culture of smugness. His argument is that until the mid 1970s round about the oil crisis the western democracies accepted the idea of a mixed economy and with that went economic social progress. Since then, however, a prominent class has emerged, materially stable and even very rich, which, far from trying to help the less fortunate, has developed a whole infrastructure - politically and intellectually - to marginalize and even demonize them. Aspects of this include tax reductions to the better off and welfare cuts to the worst off, small 'manageable wars' to maintain the unifying force of a common enemy, the idea of 'unmitigated laissez-faire as embodiment of freedom,' and a desire for cutback in government. The most important collective end result of all this, Galbraith says, is a blindness and a deafness among the 'contented' to the growing problems of society. While they are content to spend, or have spent in their name, trillions of dollars to defeat relatively minor enemy figures... they are extremely unwilling to spend money on the underclass nearer home. In a startling paragraph he quotes figures to show that 'the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by 28% in just 10 years from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32 million in 1988 by then nearly one in five children was born in poverty in the United States more than twice as high a proportion as in Canada or Germany." Peter Watson

Comparing America, which only started really gaining population in the past hundred years with nations that have city centers thousands of years old is your first error.

Trains do not work in California because no matter where the train stops, 99.9% of the people would have to walk 10 or more miles to their destination.

 

[Siete]

last time I was in Cali they didnt appear to be hurting too damn bad. If you live in Cali, vote.

do you live in Cali weatherman?

 

[Weatherman2020]

last time I was in Cali they didnt appear to be hurting too damn bad. If you live in Cali, vote.

do you live in Cali weatherman?

Born and raised native but probably will die somewhere else in the world. LA and SF (aka Sodom and Gomorrah) are bat shit crazy and hold the keys to the government. State taxes are 31% higher than the #2 State in America, but because of the leftist policies the money is pissed away on trains to nowhere, illegals, and lining the pockets of leftists. Icons of California:

 

[CrusaderFrank]

CA Dems have some seriously fucked up priorities. You can fly from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for $125, why the fuck do you need to spend $60 billion to build a trian?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That is the reason European and Asian nations fund these projects through government. America is falling behind the rest of the world because our tax structure allows the Americans who gain most from America to do little in the way of supporting it. Americans are the only people on earth that think failing bridges and roads are the price we have to pay so the wealthy and corporations can pay less in taxes and outsource production to save a few bucks. The Free Trade god is a mighty god but cares little about building up the nation.

"There is no historical evidence that tax cuts spur economic growth. The highest period of growth in U.S. history (1933-1973) also saw its highest tax rates on the rich: 70 to 91 percent. During this period, the general tax rate climbed as well, but it reached a plateau in 1969, and growth slowed down five years later. Almost all rich nations have higher general taxes than the U.S., and they are growing faster as well." Tax cuts spur economic growth

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan: Kim Phillips-Fein: 9780393059304: Amazon.com: Books

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned." UBI and the Flat Tax

"'The Culture of Contentment' is a deliberate misnomer. Galbraith is using irony here, irony little short of sarcasm. What he really means is the culture of smugness. His argument is that until the mid 1970s round about the oil crisis the western democracies accepted the idea of a mixed economy and with that went economic social progress. Since then, however, a prominent class has emerged, materially stable and even very rich, which, far from trying to help the less fortunate, has developed a whole infrastructure - politically and intellectually - to marginalize and even demonize them. Aspects of this include tax reductions to the better off and welfare cuts to the worst off, small 'manageable wars' to maintain the unifying force of a common enemy, the idea of 'unmitigated laissez-faire as embodiment of freedom,' and a desire for cutback in government. The most important collective end result of all this, Galbraith says, is a blindness and a deafness among the 'contented' to the growing problems of society. While they are content to spend, or have spent in their name, trillions of dollars to defeat relatively minor enemy figures... they are extremely unwilling to spend money on the underclass nearer home. In a startling paragraph he quotes figures to show that 'the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by 28% in just 10 years from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32 million in 1988 by then nearly one in five children was born in poverty in the United States more than twice as high a proportion as in Canada or Germany." Peter Watson

We tried it your way, we got 8 years of an economy powered by food stamps and unemployment and $14Trillion in new debt to show for it.

Ride off into the sunset, the grown ups are running things now

 

[martybegan]

That is the reason European and Asian nations fund these projects through government. America is falling behind the rest of the world because our tax structure allows the Americans who gain most from America to do little in the way of supporting it. Americans are the only people on earth that think failing bridges and roads are the price we have to pay so the wealthy and corporations can pay less in taxes and outsource production to save a few bucks. The Free Trade god is a mighty god but cares little about building up the nation.

"There is no historical evidence that tax cuts spur economic growth. The highest period of growth in U.S. history (1933-1973) also saw its highest tax rates on the rich: 70 to 91 percent. During this period, the general tax rate climbed as well, but it reached a plateau in 1969, and growth slowed down five years later. Almost all rich nations have higher general taxes than the U.S., and they are growing faster as well." Tax cuts spur economic growth

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan: Kim Phillips-Fein: 9780393059304: Amazon.com: Books

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned." UBI and the Flat Tax

"'The Culture of Contentment' is a deliberate misnomer. Galbraith is using irony here, irony little short of sarcasm. What he really means is the culture of smugness. His argument is that until the mid 1970s round about the oil crisis the western democracies accepted the idea of a mixed economy and with that went economic social progress. Since then, however, a prominent class has emerged, materially stable and even very rich, which, far from trying to help the less fortunate, has developed a whole infrastructure - politically and intellectually - to marginalize and even demonize them. Aspects of this include tax reductions to the better off and welfare cuts to the worst off, small 'manageable wars' to maintain the unifying force of a common enemy, the idea of 'unmitigated laissez-faire as embodiment of freedom,' and a desire for cutback in government. The most important collective end result of all this, Galbraith says, is a blindness and a deafness among the 'contented' to the growing problems of society. While they are content to spend, or have spent in their name, trillions of dollars to defeat relatively minor enemy figures... they are extremely unwilling to spend money on the underclass nearer home. In a startling paragraph he quotes figures to show that 'the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by 28% in just 10 years from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32 million in 1988 by then nearly one in five children was born in poverty in the United States more than twice as high a proportion as in Canada or Germany." Peter Watson

Comparing America, which only started really gaining population in the past hundred years with nations that have city centers thousands of years old is your first error.

Trains do not work in California because no matter where the train stops, 99.9% of the people would have to walk 10 or more miles to their destination.

When we traveled in France for our Honeymoon, we hit 5 French cities, and in all but Paris and Lyon the Train station was a 10 minute walk from the main downtown area and the tourist area. In Paris they had a metro system we took, and in Lyon, it was a 10 minute cab ride. The issue with California is that it lacks the local transit infrastructure to move people around the city once they get to the main rail station.

The northeast corridor works because most of the larger cities on it have a metro or commuter rail system that spokes out from the central hub, and the rail station is either the hub or close to it.

 

[Weatherman2020]

CA Dems have some seriously fucked up priorities. You can fly from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for $125, why the fuck do you need to spend $60 billion to build a trian?

It wouldn't even go to Vegas, just between LA and SF. In about 4 hours. $80 Southwest deals and even with TSA I get there at the same time.

BTW - I played a nice role in killing the LA-SD run they wanted.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

CA Dems have some seriously fucked up priorities. You can fly from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for $125, why the fuck do you need to spend $60 billion to build a trian?

It wouldn't even go to Vegas, just between LA and SF. In about 4 hours. $80 Southwest deals and even with TSA I get there at the same time.

BTW - I played a nice role in killing the LA-SD run they wanted.

Yeah? That had to be good

 

[Weatherman2020]

That is the reason European and Asian nations fund these projects through government. America is falling behind the rest of the world because our tax structure allows the Americans who gain most from America to do little in the way of supporting it. Americans are the only people on earth that think failing bridges and roads are the price we have to pay so the wealthy and corporations can pay less in taxes and outsource production to save a few bucks. The Free Trade god is a mighty god but cares little about building up the nation.

"There is no historical evidence that tax cuts spur economic growth. The highest period of growth in U.S. history (1933-1973) also saw its highest tax rates on the rich: 70 to 91 percent. During this period, the general tax rate climbed as well, but it reached a plateau in 1969, and growth slowed down five years later. Almost all rich nations have higher general taxes than the U.S., and they are growing faster as well." Tax cuts spur economic growth

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan: Kim Phillips-Fein: 9780393059304: Amazon.com: Books

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned." UBI and the Flat Tax

"'The Culture of Contentment' is a deliberate misnomer. Galbraith is using irony here, irony little short of sarcasm. What he really means is the culture of smugness. His argument is that until the mid 1970s round about the oil crisis the western democracies accepted the idea of a mixed economy and with that went economic social progress. Since then, however, a prominent class has emerged, materially stable and even very rich, which, far from trying to help the less fortunate, has developed a whole infrastructure - politically and intellectually - to marginalize and even demonize them. Aspects of this include tax reductions to the better off and welfare cuts to the worst off, small 'manageable wars' to maintain the unifying force of a common enemy, the idea of 'unmitigated laissez-faire as embodiment of freedom,' and a desire for cutback in government. The most important collective end result of all this, Galbraith says, is a blindness and a deafness among the 'contented' to the growing problems of society. While they are content to spend, or have spent in their name, trillions of dollars to defeat relatively minor enemy figures... they are extremely unwilling to spend money on the underclass nearer home. In a startling paragraph he quotes figures to show that 'the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by 28% in just 10 years from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32 million in 1988 by then nearly one in five children was born in poverty in the United States more than twice as high a proportion as in Canada or Germany." Peter Watson

Comparing America, which only started really gaining population in the past hundred years with nations that have city centers thousands of years old is your first error.

Trains do not work in California because no matter where the train stops, 99.9% of the people would have to walk 10 or more miles to their destination.

When we traveled in France for our Honeymoon, we hit 5 French cities, and in all but Paris and Lyon the Train station was a 10 minute walk from the main downtown area and the tourist area. In Paris they had a metro system we took, and in Lyon, it was a 10 minute cab ride. The issue with California is that it lacks the local transit infrastructure to move people around the city once they get to the main rail station.

The northeast corridor works because most of the larger cities on it have a metro or commuter rail system that spokes out from the central hub, and the rail station is either the hub or close to it.

Yes, areas of the northeast work for rail because of the densities. Don't have that in Calif. You have LA and SF and nothing but small towns in between. And in Calif you have mountains and trains don't like mountains. So the first phase they picked flat ground of central Calif. So far it is double the original budget and 5 years behind schedule on a flat 29 mile run.

 

[Weatherman2020]

CA Dems have some seriously fucked up priorities. You can fly from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for $125, why the fuck do you need to spend $60 billion to build a trian?

It wouldn't even go to Vegas, just between LA and SF. In about 4 hours. $80 Southwest deals and even with TSA I get there at the same time.

BTW - I played a nice role in killing the LA-SD run they wanted.

Yeah? That had to be good

One of the few times you can get your face on the front page of the San Diego Union Sunday paper and not broken the law.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Govt transportation cos are locked in the past running buses down routes even when there is nobody to pick up mindlessly spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and dumping public funds down the sewer. No reason with todays tech you cant go to a live pic of who is where either thru cams or apps so you match vehicle size to customer demand.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Govt transportation cos are locked in the past running buses down routes even when there is nobody to pick up mindlessly spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and dumping public funds down the sewer. No reason with todays tech you cant go to a live pic of who is where either thru cams or apps so you match vehicle size to customer demand.

I would be happy if they just timed the damn traffic lights to be green when you drive down a major street at the speed limit.

 

[Cellblock2429]

That is the reason European and Asian nations fund these projects through government. America is falling behind the rest of the world because our tax structure allows the Americans who gain most from America to do little in the way of supporting it. Americans are the only people on earth that think failing bridges and roads are the price we have to pay so the wealthy and corporations can pay less in taxes and outsource production to save a few bucks. The Free Trade god is a mighty god but cares little about building up the nation.

"There is no historical evidence that tax cuts spur economic growth. The highest period of growth in U.S. history (1933-1973) also saw its highest tax rates on the rich: 70 to 91 percent. During this period, the general tax rate climbed as well, but it reached a plateau in 1969, and growth slowed down five years later. Almost all rich nations have higher general taxes than the U.S., and they are growing faster as well." Tax cuts spur economic growth

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan: Kim Phillips-Fein: 9780393059304: Amazon.com: Books

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned." UBI and the Flat Tax

"'The Culture of Contentment' is a deliberate misnomer. Galbraith is using irony here, irony little short of sarcasm. What he really means is the culture of smugness. His argument is that until the mid 1970s round about the oil crisis the western democracies accepted the idea of a mixed economy and with that went economic social progress. Since then, however, a prominent class has emerged, materially stable and even very rich, which, far from trying to help the less fortunate, has developed a whole infrastructure - politically and intellectually - to marginalize and even demonize them. Aspects of this include tax reductions to the better off and welfare cuts to the worst off, small 'manageable wars' to maintain the unifying force of a common enemy, the idea of 'unmitigated laissez-faire as embodiment of freedom,' and a desire for cutback in government. The most important collective end result of all this, Galbraith says, is a blindness and a deafness among the 'contented' to the growing problems of society. While they are content to spend, or have spent in their name, trillions of dollars to defeat relatively minor enemy figures... they are extremely unwilling to spend money on the underclass nearer home. In a startling paragraph he quotes figures to show that 'the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by 28% in just 10 years from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32 million in 1988 by then nearly one in five children was born in poverty in the United States more than twice as high a proportion as in Canada or Germany." Peter Watson

/---- your twisted logic is laughable. No one thinks failing bridges and roads are acceptable for any reason you blithering idiot. What happened to the Trillion dollar stimulus Obozo said was for infrastructure? Where did that money go? I bet you don't answer.

 

[Weatherman2020]

That is the reason European and Asian nations fund these projects through government. America is falling behind the rest of the world because our tax structure allows the Americans who gain most from America to do little in the way of supporting it. Americans are the only people on earth that think failing bridges and roads are the price we have to pay so the wealthy and corporations can pay less in taxes and outsource production to save a few bucks. The Free Trade god is a mighty god but cares little about building up the nation.

"There is no historical evidence that tax cuts spur economic growth. The highest period of growth in U.S. history (1933-1973) also saw its highest tax rates on the rich: 70 to 91 percent. During this period, the general tax rate climbed as well, but it reached a plateau in 1969, and growth slowed down five years later. Almost all rich nations have higher general taxes than the U.S., and they are growing faster as well." Tax cuts spur economic growth

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan: Kim Phillips-Fein: 9780393059304: Amazon.com: Books

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned." UBI and the Flat Tax

"'The Culture of Contentment' is a deliberate misnomer. Galbraith is using irony here, irony little short of sarcasm. What he really means is the culture of smugness. His argument is that until the mid 1970s round about the oil crisis the western democracies accepted the idea of a mixed economy and with that went economic social progress. Since then, however, a prominent class has emerged, materially stable and even very rich, which, far from trying to help the less fortunate, has developed a whole infrastructure - politically and intellectually - to marginalize and even demonize them. Aspects of this include tax reductions to the better off and welfare cuts to the worst off, small 'manageable wars' to maintain the unifying force of a common enemy, the idea of 'unmitigated laissez-faire as embodiment of freedom,' and a desire for cutback in government. The most important collective end result of all this, Galbraith says, is a blindness and a deafness among the 'contented' to the growing problems of society. While they are content to spend, or have spent in their name, trillions of dollars to defeat relatively minor enemy figures... they are extremely unwilling to spend money on the underclass nearer home. In a startling paragraph he quotes figures to show that 'the number of Americans living below the poverty line increased by 28% in just 10 years from 24.5 million in 1978 to 32 million in 1988 by then nearly one in five children was born in poverty in the United States more than twice as high a proportion as in Canada or Germany." Peter Watson

/---- your twisted logic is laughable. No one thinks failing bridges and roads are acceptable for any reason you blithering idiot. What happened to the Trillion dollar stimulus Obozo said was for infrastructure? Where did that money go? I bet you don't answer.

He also thinks people paid 71-90% of their income in taxes. The left have no clue as to what goes on in the real world.

 

[whitehall]

Democrats must think they are still living in the days when Cronkite was king and the only news went through a liberal filter. Americans are smarter and better informed but democrats continue with their 60's playbook. They knew Hillary was a flawed candidate but they fooled themselves into believing fake polls that showed she would win in a landslide and they continue to rely on fake polls. It's gotten so bad that democrats decided to be bystanders or obstructionists rather than fix what's wrong with Obamacare and they think Americans don't notice. The die hards would rather live in a fantasy world where last November's election is reversed rather than face the reality that the democrat party has lost not only the presidency but they lost the majority in congress and most of the state governors not to mention the biggest landslide in modern history and over 2,000 state and local elections since Obama's first term. They still don't get it and it looks like they will never get it until the democrat party fades into oblivion.

 

[The Original Tree]

It's CRIMINAL that Pelosi and Brown haven't done a phucking thing to expand California's Water Infrastructure Delivery Systems and Reservoirs.
It's a Semi Arid Desert in Southern CA.

They just flushed enough water out to the Ocean to water their Golf Course for 20 years.

Assholes.

But they spent $25 Billion on illegals. They got money for that, right?

 

[The Original Tree]

last time I was in Cali they didnt appear to be hurting too damn bad. If you live in Cali, vote.

do you live in Cali weatherman?

Born and raised native but probably will die somewhere else in the world. LA and SF (aka Sodom and Gomorrah) are bat shit crazy and hold the keys to the government. State taxes are 31% higher than the #2 State in America, but because of the leftist policies the money is pissed away on trains to nowhere, illegals, and lining the pockets of leftists. Icons of California:
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The right thing to do with that is to work with the Terrain and natural rock formations instead of try to dump a ton of fill in there.

 

[Weatherman2020]

last time I was in Cali they didnt appear to be hurting too damn bad. If you live in Cali, vote.

do you live in Cali weatherman?

Born and raised native but probably will die somewhere else in the world. LA and SF (aka Sodom and Gomorrah) are bat shit crazy and hold the keys to the government. State taxes are 31% higher than the #2 State in America, but because of the leftist policies the money is pissed away on trains to nowhere, illegals, and lining the pockets of leftists. Icons of California:
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The right thing to do with that is to work with the Terrain and natural rock formations instead of try to dump a ton of fill in there.

I prefer to fill it with the bodies of the Democrats who control the State.