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White House Pulls Down TSA Petition
Jeremiah Cornelius writes with a note that on Thursday of this week "The Electronic Privacy Information Center posted a brief and detailed notice about the removal of a petition regarding security screenings by the TSA at US airports and other locations. 'At approximately 11:30 am EDT, the White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures from the White House 'We the People' website. About 22,500 of the 25,000 signatures necessary for a response from the Administration were obtained when the White House unexpectedly cut short the time period for the petition. The site also went down for 'maintenance' following an article in Wired that sought support for the campaign."
the Obama administration is more or less in line with the GOP opposition, which created the TSA in the first place
The GOP mostly supported tougher screening, but they did not want it run by the government. They wanted it run by private contractors, just like it was before 9/11. The TSA was pushed by Democrats and Bush caved in to get what he wanted on other issues. In hindsight, it is clear that the Republicans were right: the TSA has doubled the costs of screening and has performed no better than the private contractors at detecting prohibited items during routine tests.
No sources to back this up. You haven't proved a thing.
Don't bother making comments if you're not even going to provided citations, then. I'm not going to go searching for proof to prove that your arguments are correct.
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We already eliminated the classic rich ... the barons who created tens and hundreds of thousands of jobs. We regulated them to death, and they took the jobs to Asia. Give you a hint, I'm a small businesswoman and I'm not "jumping into the void." I'm being smarter about outsourcing. Your "tax da rich" shit has driven your job to India.
It doesn't matter that the top marginal rates were high, people did not pay those taxes at those rates, even the richest people.
People today are doing everything they can to avoid the top marginal rate of what, 35%? Why would anybody work for 6 cents on a dollar?
The claim that the wealthy make, that the high taxes prevent the economy from growing is absolutely correct. Not only the high taxes prevent the economy from growing, they shrink the economy, they take out the savings that otherwise would be available as investments, worse, this money ends up growing the government in all directions and it ends up growing a large dependent class, which will always vote for more taxes on the rich and less taxes on themselves, it's a system that is designed to take away from those who earn and to give welfare to those who don't, it's a system designed around theft.
In fact AFAIC there is no difference between a welfare recipient and a government worker. Just because the government worker has a job to go to, it doesn't change the fact that his job is being paid from the productivity stolen from people who ACTUALLY produce the wealth that ends up as salaries.
A job is not a job is not a job, it's not true that government can spend into prosperity, it's not true that government jobs add to prosperity and to economy, it's not true that spending is what grows the economy.
Spending does not grow the economy, spending only takes out of the economy, economy is grown by the production, the savings and the investments that are used to make profits grow the economy, because that's what creates productivity - production - products, services we want.
Our desire for products and services is unlimited, what is limited is our capacity to pay for them, and in the free market economy this problem is very well addressed by competition, which takes the prices lower and lower, while increasing the productivity of the worker with more investments - tools, better tools, better training, better facilities, better infrastructure to do things faster, better, cheaper.
What happened since the Fed and IRS were introduced - the productivity of the people was stolen from the people by inflation (printing) and income, corporate, payroll taxes (* see my sig, I explain about the fact that the personal income taxes are illegal and are collected illegally in USA *).
As to the tax cuts during the Bush era - the guy cut the rates, but he never cut taxes, what I am saying is that he increased government spending, and the taxes is what you have to pay, whatever the rates are.
The debt is the tax.
The debt is the tax + interest.
The debt is a way to spend now and tax you later (you or your children).
Cutting tax rates without cutting spending does not equal cutting taxes, and that is exactly why the jobs are leaving, because cutting tax rates while growing spending means the situation is getting worse and worse, even if you are not paying right now, look what government is going to do - it's going to raise taxes eventually, and it's constantly taxing you with the inflation anyway.
Think about this: the Fed has this fake dual mandate (stable prices and low unemployment).
Well how did the Fed do with the price stability since 1913 (it's almost 100 years now!)
It did terribly, the prices were going DOWN BEFORE THE FED WAS INTRODUCED. The point of the Fed is not to keep the prices stable, it's the exact opposite, it's to provide certain most connected people to power with unlimited money, but where is the money coming from? It's coming out of YOUR POCKET, it's coming out of your savings, it's destroying your savings, it's the reason that both: there are no legitimate savings and prices are going up.
How about unemployment? Well, how does manipulation of the interest rates curb unemployment? It's very simple, I will explain to the uninitiated: increasing the inflation lowers your hourly wage.
Again: increasing inflation lowers your hourly wage. The Fed is making y
You can't handle the truth.