I’m ok with it as long as we can still have books.

I meant consumers in the specific sense (e.g. consumers of fiction), not the broader sense, although it’s a valid point.

That is fine if the people spend the money to drive the economy or invest to create incremental job increases. That is not what is happening here.

K Street. I know. They are using government as their stalking horse.

Many a small contractor can tell you about the rich never spending.

You people are all missing the point. Wealthy people deserve more wealth because they are wealthy. If you liberal atheists would sober up and stop having abortions after your gay sex parties and do some actual research, you’d know this. Right there in the Bible. Jesus said so and then went back to work as CEO of…

What if we tied the tax break to how many people get hired and how much your lower wages increase? So hire more people and pay them better, and your corporate rate goes down?

My sister had to move to STL a few years ago with her husband for his job. Granted, they’re in a pretty wealthy area, but she said it’s creepy how conservative it is. Beyond that, Mrs. Godzooks went to SLU, and all the people I have ever met from STL who live in middle class areas a flaming cons. Anecdotal, I know.

What happens is those shareholders then dump that money into the investment markets, chasing yield, pumping up some or many classes of investments. Since there’s significant underlying economic weakness, some smarter investors start shorting those positions. This event, what you might call a ‘bubble’, starts getting a…

I’ve already counted 5 big stock buyback programs since the first tax bill passage totaling around $30 billion either new or additions to previous plans, and I’m not even looking for them. I bet if I had more granular finance news in my RSS feeds, I’d see even more.

But Missouri won’t make the same mistakes as Kansas. We’ll f’ it up in some even more spectacular way.

We don’t want to be like that other failing state! Let’s elect people with the exact same ideology as the people that created the failing state!

Rapebulicans

I live in Nebraska, and a very common refrain is : “We don’t want to end up like Kansas!” after Kansas’s failed Republican policies. So what do we, the people of Nebraska, do? We vote for people like Pete Ricketts, Ben Sasse, Deb Fischer, and a wide variety of conservative cardboard cut-outs.

The big corporations do not lack for capital resources. When they see an opportunity to make money, they fuckin’ take it. It almost doesn’t matter at what rate their billions in earnings will be taxed at.

This is why Rapebulicans like the uneducated: they are so easy to dupe. It doesn’t matter that we now have around 30 years of documented proof that this trickle down bullshit is, in fact, bullshit—but it doesn’t matter because these fuckers will still spew the same bullshit because they know their uneducated,…

“I probably would not be able to give you a good definition right now.”

Agree with you up till the last point. Any time you have term limits, judges will be subject to political influence from whomever is doing the appointing.

Holy shit, you can tell John Kennedy has, in fact, tried cases in State and Federal court, because that was as brutal a questioning of a witness as I’ve ever seen.

It’s a big room where judges sit, but that’s not important right now…