I know what you think as well, the claim you made in post #530 is BS.
What was dishonest?
I think the whole "tax cuts for the rich" meme was dishonest. As I have already posted, there was significant tax relief at the bottom. Dollar amounts were greater at the top because that's where the money is, and so little was being paid further down the scale.eace
think = opinion
Are you claiming that a person is free not to participate if he chooses?
You make a lot of assumptions.
think = opinion
Yet, as in understand it, one of the key aspects of living in the US is that you can take steps to change a law you dislike. Granted doing so is a very long process and may fail.
Still, it is not a given that someone accepts current law, despite voluntarily living in the US. That they should obey the law, yes. That they agree with it, no.
participate in what?
Participation in the USA is a purely voluntary act.
In what you just said:
Are you claiming that a person is free not to participate if he chooses?
You can leave at any time and end your sentence here.
Leave? What are you talking about? I'm not talking about going anywhere. I'm talking about a person not participating in this thing you keep insisting is voluntary.
You seemed to be implying such. Perhaps unintentionally.Nobody is disputing that.
When one enters a voluntary association like living in a nation of their choice, they accept all the benefits and all the responsibilities and duties that the nation offers and demands. If you do not like that, you are free to go elsewhere.
What part of that has not been explained to you over and over and over and over and over again and again and again and again for the last dozen or so pages?
You would do that no matter what I said. I just realized you shot yourself in the foot, you said: "Dollar amounts were greater at the top because that's where the money is, and so little was being paid further down the scale." Tax cuts for the rich. eace:If that's your defense then I'll put this one in the "win" column.eace
So. It looks like thus far the effects of the shut-down have equaled out the effects of the Obamacare debacle. Going forward, mind you, the only thing driving the numbers will be the continued Obamacare debacle....
..... until we find a way to do something else stupid.
Worth noting, however, is that the poll is of registered rather than likely voters, which will lean slightly D, and that "hoping the opposition really screws up" is not a terribly good strategy. Gonna be funny to watch Democrats begin to swing against ole O-Care.
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Funny...You would do that no matter what I said. I just realized you shot yourself in the foot, you said: "Dollar amounts were greater at the top because that's where the money is, and so little was being paid further down the scale." Tax cuts for the rich. eace:
Because the association controls a physical area in which they apply their rules.But if it is a voluntary association, why can't one just leave the association and all its benefits but remain where he lives?
You would do that no matter what I said. I just realized you shot yourself in the foot, you said: "Dollar amounts were greater at the top because that's where the money is, and so little was being paid further down the scale." Tax cuts for the rich. eace:
Because the association controls a physical area in which they apply their rules.
But if it is a voluntary association, why can't one just leave the association and all its benefits but remain where he lives?
Explain how one lives in the USA and does not enjoy even a single benefit of that residence.
No one ever disputed that dollar amounts were more at the top; it's the top, after all. That situation was created, ironically, by the firmly progressive tax code. There was more room for cuts at the top; the bottom was already paying very little. After the cuts they paid nothing.eace