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Originally posted by CaDreamer
We don't need a raise in tax rate. We need a stable lower rate that EVERYONE pays. No loopholes, no workarounds. and apply to all types of income. we would be in the black in 4 years.
Originally posted by Scytherius
Sanity???? On WHAT planet?
Paul will never, ever get into the WH. He won't even be nominated.
His approach of "property rights trump all" is anathema to a free society. His belief that market forces will prevail is quaintly ignorant. That was almost out of date when it was taught to me in college in the 60s.
Ron Paul just another clown in the clown show.
Originally posted by DarthMuerte
Amen. Dr Paul may be this nations last chance for survival. If things continue as they are the coming financial catastrophe will destroy us. Honestly though, I do not see TPTB allowing Ron Paul to get elected. If he somehow did, they would kill him and blame Al-Queda or something.
Originally posted by TheDevilOfLies
i like everyone like ron paul
but i think someone needs to inject a sense of reality into the situation
there are many ideas he has, that over time would benefit the country, however if he implements them the way he talks about sometimes, the country wont last long enough to benefit
look what happened with obama
he promised change, the country went nuts and look where we are
ron pauls making a lot of promises, the country is going nuts
if he makes the instant cuts he has talked about in the past, the country will riot
i could see his ideas working in a 20 year period, but he only gets 4 to 8
if he rushes things, the nation will crumble
the truth of the matter is, we are one spark away from a civil or revolutionary war right now today
Originally posted by gorgi
Originally posted by CaDreamer
We don't need a raise in tax rate. We need a stable lower rate that EVERYONE pays. No loopholes, no workarounds. and apply to all types of income. we would be in the black in 4 years.
WRONG. The Flat taxes he wants and even with the cuts we would be broke and the fact that it would hurt the lower classes more than the upper class. Way to go DR. Paul. Its more sticking up for the rich.
Originally posted by SelfSustainedLoner
reply to post by TheDevilOfLies
The promises Ron Paul is making now, has no relevance being it is not running time. When the time comes that RP has to speak in front of millions of TV viewers to show and tell why he want's to be president, that is when we can hold him to his word. Otherwise anything he say's now has no relevance.
Originally posted by gorgi
Apparently Dr.Paul does not realize that slashing pending during a hard economic time the economy will get far worse. There is a reason that no sane person takes him seriously.
Originally posted by thePharaoh
AMERICA HAS ALWAYS GIVEN EGYPT MONEY....SINCE HOWARD CARTER....so obama is honoring carters peace agreement....and protecting isreals ineterest...EGYPT WOULD NOT ALLOW ISREAL TO HAVE DISPROPORTIONATE INVESTMENT.....egypt get 1 billion...isreal gets over 10 billion
at the end of the day
that money is in the benefit for isreal.... the US..... and anyone that uses the canal..so fix up...your sounding more and more like a lynch mob each day.
ron paul...whoever that is....how can you nip pick at a lame issue like this...unless he want to change the status quo in the middle east...this situation is bigger than ron paul, he needs to know his place......when nasser and sadat fought the isrealis...america and us BEGGED sadat to sign and take this money....isreal got a state, got free gas, got free access to the canal etc etc etc etc tectetc etc etc ....and ron paul wants to blame obama lololol....sorry but he sounds like an oppurtunist that must of been washing his hair while bush was in power
Originally posted by merkaba93
Originally posted by gorgi
Apparently Dr.Paul does not realize that slashing pending during a hard economic time the economy will get far worse. There is a reason that no sane person takes him seriously.
Several things for you to ponder.
The printing of money the Fed is doing to keep up with the deficit spending is the direct cause of much of the unrest in the world right now as it is causing food prices to rise globally. Poor people, particularly in the middle east, cannot afford to eat due to the devaluing dollar = civil unrest.
It is not the job of government, nor is it within its capabilities, to create real, productive, jobs. We need to make real things. We cannot have an economy based on government service sector jobs and financial sector jobs.
The US is dead flat broke and financing the debt through POMO. Essentially buying back recently issued treasuries with the end result that the proceeds find there way into the stock market to keep it going up.
The US has now breached the debt ceiling and is raiding pensions.
The dollar has lost 94% of its value since the illegal Fed came into existence in 1913.
Did I mention... we're broke?
Originally posted by ldyserenity
How about tariffs on imported goods?
That'll help too. Does he say anything about that?
And to include oil??
That would make us be more dependant on American made products and oil drilled here.