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[quote=Huckleberry]This puts a major dent in Obama’s plan for big gov’t and big spending. Especially the healthcare initiative!

This will start the movement of gov’t gridlock.

Obama (and his administration) is on his way to being dead in the water.[/quote]

Really? Let’s see what happened. Two new D house members in favor of serious health care reform, one (Geramendi) more liberal than the D he replaced (Ellen Tauscher) and the other, a blue dog (Owens in NY-23) who moved left, not right in his campaign.

So Obama gets two new reliable votes in the house (one of which has been reliably republican in the past, and somehow that translates in a bad thing for him?

Fantasy trumps reality?

[SK in CV]

[quote=Huckleberry]This puts a major dent in Obama’s plan for big gov’t and big spending. Especially the healthcare initiative!

This will start the movement of gov’t gridlock.

Obama (and his administration) is on his way to being dead in the water.[/quote]

Really? Let’s see what happened. Two new D house members in favor of serious health care reform, one (Geramendi) more liberal than the D he replaced (Ellen Tauscher) and the other, a blue dog (Owens in NY-23) who moved left, not right in his campaign.

So Obama gets two new reliable votes in the house (one of which has been reliably republican in the past, and somehow that translates in a bad thing for him?

Fantasy trumps reality?

[SK in CV]

[quote=Huckleberry]This puts a major dent in Obama’s plan for big gov’t and big spending. Especially the healthcare initiative!

This will start the movement of gov’t gridlock.

Obama (and his administration) is on his way to being dead in the water.[/quote]

Really? Let’s see what happened. Two new D house members in favor of serious health care reform, one (Geramendi) more liberal than the D he replaced (Ellen Tauscher) and the other, a blue dog (Owens in NY-23) who moved left, not right in his campaign.

So Obama gets two new reliable votes in the house (one of which has been reliably republican in the past, and somehow that translates in a bad thing for him?

Fantasy trumps reality?

[SK in CV]

[quote=Huckleberry]This puts a major dent in Obama’s plan for big gov’t and big spending. Especially the healthcare initiative!

This will start the movement of gov’t gridlock.

Obama (and his administration) is on his way to being dead in the water.[/quote]

Really? Let’s see what happened. Two new D house members in favor of serious health care reform, one (Geramendi) more liberal than the D he replaced (Ellen Tauscher) and the other, a blue dog (Owens in NY-23) who moved left, not right in his campaign.

So Obama gets two new reliable votes in the house (one of which has been reliably republican in the past, and somehow that translates in a bad thing for him?

Fantasy trumps reality?

[SK in CV]

[quote=Rockemsock]
Is it just me or is our tax system a bit complicated? Flat tax anyone?![/quote]

If only it was so easy. A flat tax would do little to simplify our tax system. Since the early to mid 80’s we’ve had only 3 or 4 different tax rates. Before then (as I recall) it was closer to 8 to 10. Even that wasn’t so complicated. 10 seconds with a calculator is all it took. Most of the complications are related to computing taxable income. Simplifying that isn’t so simple.

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[quote=Rockemsock]
Is it just me or is our tax system a bit complicated? Flat tax anyone?![/quote]

If only it was so easy. A flat tax would do little to simplify our tax system. Since the early to mid 80’s we’ve had only 3 or 4 different tax rates. Before then (as I recall) it was closer to 8 to 10. Even that wasn’t so complicated. 10 seconds with a calculator is all it took. Most of the complications are related to computing taxable income. Simplifying that isn’t so simple.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Rockemsock]
Is it just me or is our tax system a bit complicated? Flat tax anyone?![/quote]

If only it was so easy. A flat tax would do little to simplify our tax system. Since the early to mid 80’s we’ve had only 3 or 4 different tax rates. Before then (as I recall) it was closer to 8 to 10. Even that wasn’t so complicated. 10 seconds with a calculator is all it took. Most of the complications are related to computing taxable income. Simplifying that isn’t so simple.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Rockemsock]
Is it just me or is our tax system a bit complicated? Flat tax anyone?![/quote]

If only it was so easy. A flat tax would do little to simplify our tax system. Since the early to mid 80’s we’ve had only 3 or 4 different tax rates. Before then (as I recall) it was closer to 8 to 10. Even that wasn’t so complicated. 10 seconds with a calculator is all it took. Most of the complications are related to computing taxable income. Simplifying that isn’t so simple.

[SK in CV]

[quote=Rockemsock]
Is it just me or is our tax system a bit complicated? Flat tax anyone?![/quote]

If only it was so easy. A flat tax would do little to simplify our tax system. Since the early to mid 80’s we’ve had only 3 or 4 different tax rates. Before then (as I recall) it was closer to 8 to 10. Even that wasn’t so complicated. 10 seconds with a calculator is all it took. Most of the complications are related to computing taxable income. Simplifying that isn’t so simple.

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I just have to laugh at this one.

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: I believe it goes much deeper than that. This is an Administration that won’t abide dissent and seeks to marginalize and demonize its own citizens. Examples being the WH’s attempts to ostracize Fox News..[/quote]

I suppose you were saying the same thing when the Bush White House accused NBC of deceitful editing and started their own war on NBC? Was the Bush White House trying to marginalize and demonize it’s own citizens?

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I just have to laugh at this one.

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: I believe it goes much deeper than that. This is an Administration that won’t abide dissent and seeks to marginalize and demonize its own citizens. Examples being the WH’s attempts to ostracize Fox News..[/quote]

I suppose you were saying the same thing when the Bush White House accused NBC of deceitful editing and started their own war on NBC? Was the Bush White House trying to marginalize and demonize it’s own citizens?

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I just have to laugh at this one.

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: I believe it goes much deeper than that. This is an Administration that won’t abide dissent and seeks to marginalize and demonize its own citizens. Examples being the WH’s attempts to ostracize Fox News..[/quote]

I suppose you were saying the same thing when the Bush White House accused NBC of deceitful editing and started their own war on NBC? Was the Bush White House trying to marginalize and demonize it’s own citizens?

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I just have to laugh at this one.

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: I believe it goes much deeper than that. This is an Administration that won’t abide dissent and seeks to marginalize and demonize its own citizens. Examples being the WH’s attempts to ostracize Fox News..[/quote]

I suppose you were saying the same thing when the Bush White House accused NBC of deceitful editing and started their own war on NBC? Was the Bush White House trying to marginalize and demonize it’s own citizens?

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I just have to laugh at this one.

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: I believe it goes much deeper than that. This is an Administration that won’t abide dissent and seeks to marginalize and demonize its own citizens. Examples being the WH’s attempts to ostracize Fox News..[/quote]

I suppose you were saying the same thing when the Bush White House accused NBC of deceitful editing and started their own war on NBC? Was the Bush White House trying to marginalize and demonize it’s own citizens?

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Slight correction needed.

The CPI is not falling. It is at it’s highest level ever, save for 4 months in the middle of 2008, and as of September, at it’s highest level for calendar year 2009. It has been essentially flat for the last 4 months. It’s moved pretty slow the last 10 years, but it’s still almost 30% above where it was 10 years ago.

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