Republicans Have No Solutions

The Republican Party didn't need an agenda or a platform to win this election. All they needed to say was that they hate Obama.

Obama has become the new Jimmy Carter. He has left his party in ruins.

 

Both Obama and Democrats in Congress have/had the same agenda, which appears to have been at odds with enough voters to not only lose their majority in the Senate, but also to reduce their numbers in the House. Let's just hope the Republicans will represent their constituents and not just their party who more often than not differs little from the Democrat party.

 

It's not a matter of IF the Republicans doesn't want anyone to have it, or don't approve of it, none of that at all as HALF of that garbage you're puking actually were initiated by Republicans. The health care plan that todays ACA closely resembles was written by, of all people George Bush Sr. (IIRC he ain't a Democrat). In fact, Bush's version was more tolerable for people like myself and getting into the ACA will destroy what little bit I have left. Half of my paycheck will go into ACA, before I can use it. If that ain't fucked up I don't know what is. Right now I only pay 1/5 of that. So why pay for a health care plan that does nothing for me? Why? So other people can use it?

 

What I am saying is if you have tort reform that stop lawsuits with no merit that causes Dr's INS and Hospital INS to go up which causes them to charge more to cover then that will help with the cost. How much I don't know but it is a step.

 

It was obvious what you meant by tort reform, at least to most of us. And I agree, tort reform is needed, but that would result in a revenue stream loss for both State and Federal government.

 

That is why we also need a tax code change. I am not looking for small minor changes to the system. I am looking at large changes that will over haul the broken system. Do away with income tax and generate $ from sales tax. So when the "rich" buy big ticket items they will have a large sales tax on it. When lower income buy regular goods the tax will be higher then normal but they will have more from a pay check.

 

Strangely, I agree with you. Our present tax code is an abomination that should be scrapped. But now that the Republicans control all of Congress, will they produce such a bill? No, not unless most of the benefits go to the rich.

 

Personally. I would like to see a return to taxing the States based on their population and allowing the State governments to decide the best way to produce their 'fair' share of revenue to the Federal government. The Federal government would then only be responsible for producing a Federal spending budget which would be apportioned to each State by dividing the budget amount by the total U.S. population billing each State that amount multiplied by their States population. House and Senate members would then be much more easily held accountable by their district and State constituents for any spending excesses, which their State government would have to find ways acceptable to their citizens of acquiring the revenue due the Federal government. The Federal government then with the exception of rare instances such as a major war, or great natural disaster, would be required to live within the means provided by the representatives of the people and the States.

 

I think you have bought too much into the media tell you that Republicans are for the rich.

 

"Live within the means", now that is a very strange concept for the government.

 

Alright. Lets see what they can do with their new found gains. I just hope that they do better than the last time they were in.

Marijuana passed here. Why then would the medical MJ scene be necessary if one can get it without a MM card?

 

Medically minded atmosphere, knowledge/advice, charicteristics in the product, delivery systems, etc.

In the long run it will be better for people who use weed medicinally - they won't have to clear hurdles and prove that they're sick, they'll just say hey, I'm sick and want to use that treatment. There will be less stigma and less morons assuming that you're faking it, etc.

 

They need to do what they said or yes they should be voted out. They were drunk with power.

 

The issue there lies with how much is actually spent.

Get the fuck out with your class warfare - you're arguing for a system where poor people even out on their taxes versus the total amound they get, and where rich people pay virtually nothing compared to now, or compared to what they rightfully owe.

Poor people don't need a sales tax that evens out with what they already pay, they need a stipend. Rich people don't need a tax on the tiny bit of their money they actually spend, they need to be putting money back into the society that they took advantage of to become rich in a preportion to the amount of money they have extracted from society - it doesn't mean they can't be rich, but it does mean that their money all depends upon the country and infrastructure and people that they're surrounded by (and essentially mining their monef from), and as such, they owe tremendously more than poor people.

But it's not fair, think of the poor rich, just let them pay yaht taxes and nothing else? No, no you and your rich cronies can choke on it - you have the great privilage to benefit from every aspect of our society and infrastructure and services to make money, you need to be putting a lot back in to keep improving the country as a whole - you have the right to help things and also get rich, you don't have the right to make everything worse for everyone and get rich off of it.

 

You are funny...me and my rich cronies. I don't know anyone who makes over $100,000 a year.

The government does not have the right to just take take take from someone because they are successful. This is not about class warfare yet libs like to make it about that. It is about being fair. And I never said the government should not help the poor with certain things. You just assume that is what I want. But you are wrong.

 

Your statement about who you are on an anonymous internet message board is totally meaningless - who you allegedly know is neither here nor there - I'm basing my statement on who you're arguing for.

I explained exactly why it's not fair - at least have the guts to admit what you're arguing for - there's nothing fair about it.

When someone is successful at say, an interpersonal relationship, the government does not have the right to take that away. When someone is successful at creating a beautfiul work of art, the government does not have the right to take that away. But if somebody is successful at using society to market those things and generate wealth, that person does have a responsibility to pay it back to society, without which their success would be entirely impossible. If you sell a billion dollars in iPhones, you didn't make a billion dollars, you extracted it from people, using a multitude of government-funded infrastructure, from roads to communications/banking networks to public safety and law enforcement to protect you and your customers and both of your assets - and the list goes on.

There's absolutely a discussion to be had about how our government spends that money - right now they're waaaaaaay off the reservation in many ways - but when functioning, the government repersents the people and takes care of the best interests of the people - so the governmet has every right to tax people, especially rich people, to further those interests.

If you don't want a government or taxes, there are places you can go where you will have, in effect, neither of those things - have fun. Here, we have a semi-functional society, and you don't get to take advantage of the wealth and benefits of that society without paying it forward to keep society functioning and healthy.

Humans are social creatures, and every single advance that you benefit from is a result of that social and cooperative nature - to not tax the rich richly on behalf of society is to allow them to benefit from society, but put nothing back - in effect stealing our collective fruits. Progressive taxes are the only just kind, and you are arguing for taxes so regressive that they would hardly exist for the rich, but would be a substantial burden on the poor (in fact, as you described it, an even burden to right now - so, there's no benefit for the poor, but lots of benefit for the rich).

Socialism is the much-hated word for how humanity works and advances. It's not acceptable to benefit from socialism but decry it in name only, when it requires that you pay your fair dues.

 

[/QUOTE] Straw dog, mang.

Weather or not a lawsuit has merit is determined by a Judge. If there are frivoulus lawsuits in the courts we should be questioning the competancy of the judges, not trying to limit lawsuits across the board.

 

I am arguing for me not for anyone else.

So because a truck drives down the road with a shipment of iPhone Apple should be taxed out the ass? This is the argument as to why jobs have left America for overseas. You want to tax a company so much that the profit margin gets slimmer and slimmer or they have to raise the cost of products.

 

What is the point now that the republicans are doing so well? Should the crumby business's go to thoughts of failure and charity with a pro-war greed, or should the poor be allowed to starve as we approach the dark ages|? I know, I know; the oil prices began to fall; there was the initial right disapproved attitude of immoral wasting of greedy habits with higher interest rates,

 

If you are arguing for you, there are two options: you are rich, or you are utterly stupid (in which case, you can be dismissed right off the bat). Your choice.

Because a truck drives down the road with a shipment of iPhones, apple should be taxed appropriately.

Obviously, there should be tremendous hurdles to outsourcing jobs - it should be designed so that it makes profits lower, not higher, such that goods that are imported are those that are actually desired for their exotic nature, not just because they can be made more cheaply.

Because china can do things cheaper is a fucking pathetic richie reason to ruin our country - look at china, and tell me why on earth we should want to compete with them in a race to the bottom - there's one answer: it's really good for rich people. It's really fucking bad for everyone else, and I'm arguing for everyone else, not rich people - they don't need my support, they're already doing much better than everyone else, and still would be if my suggestions were enacted.

Un-develop our country, so that we can have more starving people just like china, yay! Just kidding, fuck that - if you do business in the US, any transfer of goods into the US should be heavily taxed, and any transfer of money out of the US should be taxed at higher than the corporate tax rate. The result won't be people not doing business with the richest country in the world - the result will be our riches staying here and working for us, instead of being extracted from the middle class, and the part that's not sent to china being given wholly to the un-taxable rich.

Of course, export of our goods should not be taxed, and inflow of money should not be taxed.