tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post8755977054031526177..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: Romney Clearly Is ThinkingClayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-52099589345285388052012-04-17T16:59:35.334-06:002012-04-17T16:59:35.334-06:00I'm going to have to agree with Anonymous--and...I'm going to have to agree with Anonymous--and we aren't going to balance the budget through taxation. Heck, even when we consider that we're likely to get a bump in revenue when we lower taxes, that bump isn't going to fix the deficit!<br /><br />Of course, the <i>alternative</i> would be for Romney to come out and say this...but then, if he were to do that, then the <i>follow-up</i> to that alternative would be Romney loning the election, and another four years of Obama.<br /><br />So while I understand why Romney <i>has</i> to say what he says (and probably even believes it), all I can say is that I have little hope for our country, and will continue to have little hope, until everyone gets a bit of sense about the enormity of our bad situation, and be willing to take a cut (or a few) to right things.<br /><br />But then, we already knew that, didn't we? :-)Epsilon Givenhttp://epsilon-power.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-5646805623076129042012-04-16T13:26:34.328-06:002012-04-16T13:26:34.328-06:00Calm down! Even with big spending cuts (and I don...Calm down! Even with big spending cuts (and I don't see anyway those can happen except by dictatorship), somehow, we need to balance the budget. Romney is talking about ways to cut tax rates, but without increasing the deficit (which is already huge), what's the alternative?Clayton Cramerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-26447621836811201192012-04-16T12:50:12.702-06:002012-04-16T12:50:12.702-06:00Romney is most certainly NOT thinking. You don...Romney is most certainly NOT thinking. You don't "pay" for tax cuts. Taxation is taking, more appropriately, stealing. <br /><br />If I steal from you every week and then suddenly this week I don't, can I claim to have given you something? If I give you something very week then this week I don't, can you claim to I've taken something from you?<br /><br />"Paying" for tax cuts is a democratic/socialist belief, that everything belongs to the state, and what you keep is what they let you, that what you have they've given you. It's the idea that because they didn't take it from you, they gave it to you, and thus it counts as an expenditure. <br /><br />Hey, we were at SSU the same time, and the econ profs there would have never made that argument. Well, maybe one, but the rest were legit. You were a history major, and I know who you're profs were :) :) Thankfully you survived!!<br /><br />This is the typical stupidity that republicans fall for. They argue contra a non-sequitur. You don't "pay" for tax cuts, you reduce spending. Spending is when you use money to pay for things. Your income is your boss' expenditure for your time and labor(or profits but of course that's a dirty word!!). If you get a cut in pay you don't ask "how am I going to pay for that?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com