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Economy adds 192,000 jobs; unemployment rate holds steady at 6.7%

Yes and what part of my statement disagrees with that? Do you have any idea how much of your gasoline is taxed at a federal, state, and local level all allocated to infrastructure repair? Why don't you find out how much was collected in Federal Excise taxes by state and how much came back to those states from the Federal Govt. You might just learn something and stop looking foolish

Let's start with this:

Revenue for the Highway Trust Fund is derived almost entirely from federal gas taxes and distributed to all 50 states.

and then continue with this:

A perpetual deadlock in Congress has resulted in eight extensions of the national transportation bill, causing roads to crumble, bridges to fall, and transit to break down.
 
Let's start with this:



and then continue with this:


Let's try this, when you buy a gallon of gasoline, when you start driving, you will be paying 18.4 cents per gallon FEDERAL Excise taxes on the gasoline and if you have a diesel you will be paying 24.4 cents per gallon. Those taxes generated 85 billion dollars in 2013. The States collected 143 billion dollars in excise taxes and the total bill for roads and highways was 183 billion dollars meaning that out of the 85 billion collected by the Federal Govt. 42 billion went to roads, where did the other 43 billion go?

So, let's see if there is anything else you don't know, first you don't understand that our Founders created a small Central Govt. and a part time legislature yet you claim our govt. is socialist in nature thus saving the capitalistic system.

Second you obviously have no idea of monetary policy as you believe printing more money is the answer and will have limited affect on the value of the dollar

Third you believe poverty is based upon a federal standard published in a book and not related to the revenue and expenses of the individual along with not understanding that personal responsibility affects the poverty level.

I could go on but expect a one line answer that totally ignores the facts and just continues to spout textbook sentences that have no relationship to human behavior.
 
Let's try this, when you buy a gallon of gasoline, when you start driving, you will be paying 18.4 cents per gallon FEDERAL Excise taxes on the gasoline and if you have a diesel you will be paying 24.4 cents per gallon. Those taxes generated 85 billion dollars in 2013. The States collected 143 billion dollars in excise taxes and the total bill for roads and highways was 183 billion dollars meaning that out of the 85 billion collected by the Federal Govt. 42 billion went to roads, where did the other 43 billion go?

So, let's see if there is anything else you don't know, first you don't understand that our Founders created a small Central Govt. and a part time legislature yet you claim our govt. is socialist in nature thus saving the capitalistic system.

Second you obviously have no idea of monetary policy as you believe printing more money is the answer and will have limited affect on the value of the dollar

Third you believe poverty is based upon a federal standard published in a book and not related to the revenue and expenses of the individual along with not understanding that personal responsibility affects the poverty level.

I could go on but expect a one line answer that totally ignores the facts and just continues to spout textbook sentences that have no relationship to human behavior.

You are welcome to cite your sources. Providing for the general welfare of the United States is delegated to one Body politic.

A perpetual deadlock in Congress has resulted in eight extensions of the national transportation bill, causing roads to crumble, bridges to fall, and transit to break down.
 
You are welcome to cite your sources. Providing for the general welfare of the United States is delegated to one Body politic.

Providing for the general welfare is the goal of the Church, not for the Federal Govt. My sources come from the budget of the United States and the Federal Highway Dept. Apparently general welfare is something else you don't understand as well.
 
Providing for the general welfare is the goal of the Church, not for the Federal Govt. My sources come from the budget of the United States and the Federal Highway Dept. Apparently general welfare is something else you don't understand as well.

Still no sources to establish more than appeals to ignorance?

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises,

to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States;


but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
 
Still no sources to establish more than appeals to ignorance?

Some people simply have to learn on their own and cannot be taught anything. You appear to be in that class. Interesting that we have a 3.8 trillion dollar Federal Govt. today and cannot seem to solve any social problems. Shouldn't that be a sign that there is something wrong with our govt? Could it possibly be that politicians are more concerned about keeping their jobs vs. doing their jobs and that social problems are state, local, and personal issues, not the Federal Govt?

I know this is hard for you to understand but you live in a state that has massive debt and great dependence on the taxpayers just to live. You don't appear to have a problem with that. You spout words like welfare, poverty, and other bumper sticker words that just show that you think with your heart and not your brain even though you use terms that tell me you spent a lot of time in the classroom, too bad you haven't spent much time in the real world. Tell me how does a politician in D.C. solve a local problem in your community?

I confess that my 35 years in the business world, my 40 years of marriage and with a family, living and traveling all over the country has created nothing but ignorance. I only wish that I could be half as smart as you think you are.
 
Some people simply have to learn on their own and cannot be taught anything. You appear to be in that class. Interesting that we have a 3.8 trillion dollar Federal Govt. today and cannot seem to solve any social problems. Shouldn't that be a sign that there is something wrong with our govt? Could it possibly be that politicians are more concerned about keeping their jobs vs. doing their jobs and that social problems are state, local, and personal issues, not the Federal Govt?

I know this is hard for you to understand but you live in a state that has massive debt and great dependence on the taxpayers just to live. You don't appear to have a problem with that. You spout words like welfare, poverty, and other bumper sticker words that just show that you think with your heart and not your brain even though you use terms that tell me you spent a lot of time in the classroom, too bad you haven't spent much time in the real world. Tell me how does a politician in D.C. solve a local problem in your community?

I confess that my 35 years in the business world, my 40 years of marriage and with a family, living and traveling all over the country has created nothing but ignorance. I only wish that I could be half as smart as you think you are.

I only know I don't need to appeal to ignorance instead of reason.
 
Daniel, I asked you a direct question earlier in the thread that you still have not addressed....did you miss it? or just ignoring it because you can't answer it?
 
Let's try this, when you buy a gallon of gasoline, when you start driving, you will be paying 18.4 cents per gallon FEDERAL Excise taxes on the gasoline and if you have a diesel you will be paying 24.4 cents per gallon. Those taxes generated 85 billion dollars in 2013. The States collected 143 billion dollars in excise taxes and the total bill for roads and highways was 183 billion dollars meaning that out of the 85 billion collected by the Federal Govt. 42 billion went to roads, where did the other 43 billion go?

So, let's see if there is anything else you don't know, first you don't understand that our Founders created a small Central Govt. and a part time legislature yet you claim our govt. is socialist in nature thus saving the capitalistic system.

Second you obviously have no idea of monetary policy as you believe printing more money is the answer and will have limited affect on the value of the dollar

Third you believe poverty is based upon a federal standard published in a book and not related to the revenue and expenses of the individual along with not understanding that personal responsibility affects the poverty level.

I could go on but expect a one line answer that totally ignores the facts and just continues to spout textbook sentences that have no relationship to human behavior.

And it even goes further than that...As a trucker for some 22 years now, we not only pay more in fuel taxes than the car drivers on the road, but we also pay for our ICC numbers, and IFTA taxes every year....Not to mention our state registration, and plate fees....And the tolls :shock: the tolls....It now costs a truck over $200 to enter and leave NYC...Does anyone have any idea what that does to prices?
 
Daniel, I asked you a direct question earlier in the thread that you still have not addressed....did you miss it? or just ignoring it because you can't answer it?

not at all; you are welcome to re-post any questions you have, each and every time you may feel the way you do. i don't complain to the moderators for that.
 
not at all; you are welcome to re-post any questions yoah,u have, each and every time you may feel the way you do. i don't complain to the moderators for that.

Nah, I did that for you before, and frankly, I am not your secretary so you can easily go back and look it up...Short of that I'll assume that you don't have an answer because it blows up your bull ****...And "complain to moderators"? LOL, what the hell would you complain about? Getting your ass handed to you as you try and sound intellectual while talking in circles? You are funny....Misguided, but funny.
 
Nah, I did that for you before, and frankly, I am not your secretary so you can easily go back and look it up...Short of that I'll assume that you don't have an answer because it blows up your bull ****...And "complain to moderators"? LOL, what the hell would you complain about? Getting your ass handed to you as you try and sound intellectual while talking in circles? You are funny....Misguided, but funny.

well, since you won't repost, I must not have any problems with your line of reasoning and you probably had nothing but fallacy, like you do now. in case you missed it, the other ones complain when I do re-post my questions. i guess they must be too difficult for them so they just complain instead of being more "competitive" under our form of capitalism.
 
well, since you won't repost, I must not have any problems with your line of reasoning and you probably had nothing but fallacy, like you do now. in case you missed it, the other ones complain when I do re-post my questions. i guess they must be too difficult for them so they just complain instead of being more "competitive" under our form of capitalism.

Ok, so you don't know what you're talking about. Got it.
 
Ok, so you don't know what you're talking about. Got it.

you are the one who won't re-post the questions. only diversions for your Cause? i don't mind re-posting mine each and every time those of the opposing view want to contest them, just because i know those of the opposing view are usually just full of fallacy, like usual.
 
you are the one who won't re-post the questions. only diversions for your Cause? i don't mind re-posting mine each and every time those of the opposing view want to contest them, just because i know those of the opposing view are usually just full of fallacy, like usual.

I am not going to re post the question because if you wanted to answer it in the first place you could have. I know you read it...I take your refusal to address the question as an admission that my premise of the question was right on...

You speak of fallacies, hell you've been committing a fallacy of ambiguity since your first post in this thread...And the fact that when presented with opportunity to actually bring light to your "Cause" you resort to the comfort of pablum that is in reality pamphlet driven drivel and meaningless....I don't know what you think you are accomplishing in here, but when drawn out in the slightest we learn just how silly your ideas are. From flooding the monetary supply without the slightest thought to what that actually does to inflation, to some convoluted idea that increasing government programs like unemployment insurance/compliance, and welfare programs will somehow decrease the size and scope of government...

In fact your rouse of saying you want "more efficient government" has nothing to do with size of government does it? Nor does it have anything to do with making anyone's life better, it is just plain crap that you either read from communist websites and thought sounded smart, or some teacher in your high school thought he could get away with filling your head with instead of World History, or Math...

Look, if you want to discuss the aspects of Socialism that have crept in to this country through over a hundred years of progressive twisting, and lying then we can discuss that, but do me a favor, and just drop the whole pseudo intellectual speak, it doesn't make you look smart, just covering up what you can't answer.

So, unless you can actually speak to the issue that promotes a dialog that allows both of us to understand what the other is talking about, then we are done...I won't waste my time with people that conduct themselves that way...
 
I am not going to re post the question because if you wanted to answer it in the first place you could have. I know you read it...I take your refusal to address the question as an admission that my premise of the question was right on...

You speak of fallacies, hell you've been committing a fallacy of ambiguity since your first post in this thread...And the fact that when presented with opportunity to actually bring light to your "Cause" you resort to the comfort of pablum that is in reality pamphlet driven drivel and meaningless....I don't know what you think you are accomplishing in here, but when drawn out in the slightest we learn just how silly your ideas are. From flooding the monetary supply without the slightest thought to what that actually does to inflation, to some convoluted idea that increasing government programs like unemployment insurance/compliance, and welfare programs will somehow decrease the size and scope of government...

In fact your rouse of saying you want "more efficient government" has nothing to do with size of government does it? Nor does it have anything to do with making anyone's life better, it is just plain crap that you either read from communist websites and thought sounded smart, or some teacher in your high school thought he could get away with filling your head with instead of World History, or Math...

Look, if you want to discuss the aspects of Socialism that have crept in to this country through over a hundred years of progressive twisting, and lying then we can discuss that, but do me a favor, and just drop the whole pseudo intellectual speak, it doesn't make you look smart, just covering up what you can't answer.

So, unless you can actually speak to the issue that promotes a dialog that allows both of us to understand what the other is talking about, then we are done...I won't waste my time with people that conduct themselves that way...

not at all; if you want to establish confidence in your sincerity, you need to post your assertion each and every time it becomes a contention, or lose the point and the argument you never had and could not seem to come up with.

i do it out of practice, and to ensure i don't lose the point and argument i usually tend to have.
 
not at all; if you want to establish confidence in your sincerity, you need to post your assertion each and every time it becomes a contention, or lose the point and the argument you never had and could not seem to come up with.

i do it out of practice, and to ensure i don't lose the point and argument i usually tend to have.

What argument? All I see from you is brochure pablum....LOL...

You "do it out of practice"? What the hell does that mean?
 
About having a clue and a Cause; why not solve simple poverty in our republic and stop playing shell games with statism regarding unemployment metrics.

Ah! Back to the pamphlet slogan's eh? Is it because you don't want to define what it is your talking about, and you don't like specifics being asked that you have to take such a puerile approach?

Speak like an adult, and answer the direct question....What do you mean by "habit"?
 
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