Re: OT: another upstanding Fuckuplican

On Mar 4, 6:38 pm, "Clyde Slick" <Mr.clydesl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason! a scris:

On Mar 4, 4:35 am, pac...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (paul packer) wrote:
On 4 Mar 2007 00:25:46 -0800, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"

<artygu...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I believe that it would net a zero either direction.

I'd swear off visiting toopid for a while, Clyde.

Don't make him swear off further visits until he's fully described the
last one.

I'm only looking out for Clyde's well-being. Look at the affect his
last visit had.

I am still curious if toopid drools, though.

He is perfectly normal.

Impossible. He may *appear* to be normal, in a Charles Manson kind of
way.

His only flaw is that, even though he is a conservative,
he sometimes uses erroneous thought processes
usually found in liberals. That is, he grabs on to
a facet of a problem, and tries to correct it
through massive changes directed at that facet, without
regard to the correlary effects such changes might
have to the reswt of the problem, and even, the
rest of organized society. Its those damned
unintended consequences.

Those are called first, second, third (etc.) order effects. I've tried
to tell toopid about them several times.

Some of them can be predicted, you know.

You're preaching to the choir.;-)

This explains some of his forays into tax policy and
illegal immigrant policy.

I am glad to see that the effects of visiting toopid were short-lived
for you.

Same for the flawed liberal
forays into environmentalism or their
tax policy, for example

"...The problem is that the Bush administration also suggests that the
tax cuts effectively pay for themselves through their stimulus to the
economy and the corollary increase in tax revenues. This is dead
wrong. Gregory Mankiw, who served as chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers for President Bush, looked at the extent to which
tax cuts stimulated growth and tax revenue. His conclusion? Even over
the long term, once you have allowed all of the extra growth to seep
through into extra revenue, cuts in capital-gains taxes stimulate the
economy enough to recoup just half of the lost revenue, and cuts in
income taxes deliver a boost that recoups only 17 percent of the lost
revenue. That math just doesn't add up.

Bernanke, the Fed chairman, endorses this view, pointing out that tax
cuts do spur economic growth but that they usually do not pay for
themselves by generating more tax revenue than they drain from the
treasury."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/070211/19edit_2.htm

Who to believe?

(BTW, toopid, here is how you do a link. You quote the pertinent
section, THEN provide a link. This is not mindless, as your links are.)

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