Gasp! What an insight!! You know what? Let's just eliminate all taxes. That will result in infinite growth!!!
Seriously if you have nothing relevant to say about the subject we're discussing then why continue?.

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How about a source or two? Federal tax revenue as a percentage of GDP reached historic lows after the last tax cuts, which indicates that while transactions may have increased regarding GDP they're due to federal capital injections from deficit spending and resulting economic multipliers. By most any standard that's known as cooking the books to pacify the masses in an attempt to retain consumer confidence, which is 70% of GDP.

Unless you somehow feel USD devaluation is a sign of prosperity, you might consider taking a closer look at the actual results of US fiscal mismanagement rather than depending on white house press releases to advertiser-driven media.

or we could just enact the fair tax plan.

I agree; maybe Mcain will do something about the out of control spending.

Or better yet, lets not make public policy decisions at all. Get the govt out of the economy. It really doesnt matter whether people feel good or bad, or what the stats show about the economy. Its up to the people to drive the economy, not for the govt to control it.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

I love how you can make stats show anything you want if you just change the terms, and eliminate some groups of people.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

Been there, done that, didn't work, won't happen again.

Next!

Originally Posted by timj219
I'm sorry but I can't be bothered with nonsense that has nothing to do with what we are talking about. Do you have anything to say which relates to the irrelevance of most economic measures for most americans? Do you have anything to say which helps explain how an economy can meaningfully be claimed to be "healthy" or "growing" when most citizens are seeing there wages reduced?

Of course the stats that tim wants to use to make his point are accurate. Others that challenge him or outright refute it are bogus.

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Stats are just stats. We use the same numbers and come to different conclusions.

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Elminate all taxes on income and replace with a national sales tax.

Very true. Problem is tim, in the same post, is saying his real income assumptions (I assume gathered from stats) are accurate and at the same time saying stats are "irrelevant". Care to respond tim and let us know how your information is gathered?

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