http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/04/two-youngish-men-will-try-to-sell-the-bush-economy-to-republicans-tonight Comments On: Two Youngish Men Will Try to Sell the Bush Economy to Republicans Tonight by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The DNC needs to address our tax code and simplify it in a way that's more fair and easy enough that people aren't scared to start a business.
The GOP have been running on the fear that our current system is just to soak the little guy and then creates a narrative and twists it into a structure that benefits the rich.
The way the GOP have used social issues to get themselves in a corner, will allow them over time to come back with 'new ideas' to simplify the tax code. Which we all know what that means... Cato, kiss your SS goodbye.
Posted by CbytheSea]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:22:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by legacy builder]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:42:37 -0800 The Stranger obvious patronizing inherent in "We're the party of the haves, and soon-to-haves" would be offensive in its obviousness, but then some people will convince themselves of anything, if the lie is comforting enough.
Posted by Knat]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:13:51 -0800 The Stranger
For what? To whom?

And with whose $1.5 trillion?

And... have you noticed that what you're describing is profoundly socialist?
Posted by balderdash]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:56:01 -0800 The Stranger
Take all the wanting to be upwardly mobile families in Renton, Kent, Auburn.

Give them a combination of tax breaks, business incentives, education grants, but also real stuff, like contracts, jobs, consultancies...the real meat of what the BigWigs get, but maybe on a reduced basis. Start awarding $50,000 contacts, buy more from small business.

Even if we could get 10% of the people onto the wealth track we'd get a majority.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:20:45 -0800 The Stranger
Now, what probably would appeal strongly enough to the average, mostly decent but flawed individual's greed is if they announced a lottery in which one lucky Republican voter would win a billion dollars. That'd be a fucking landslide, because people are terrible at math.
Posted by balderdash]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:21:16 -0800 The Stranger
The best line of Mitt Romney's, one that should have been his major theme was "Republicans are the party for people who want to get rich".

If the Republicans could do that, for even a significant portion of Obama voters who really just want to climb the wealth and status ladder -- not merely get education credit voucher, we could easily retake majority status.
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:15:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by balderdash]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:02:51 -0800 The Stranger
So how does that explain concentration of wealth in societies that used gold coins? And societies that outlawed usury?
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:39:12 -0800 The Stranger capitalism that inexorably concentrates wealth, capitalism is the philosophy and practice of positive-interest currency. But in fact it is the mechanics of the currency itself that tends towards concentration of wealth. If you had a currency with negative-interest, or even "mutual credit"/no interest... money-wealth would not concentrate.
Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:56:46 -0800 The Stranger
Maybe we should try fighting Eurasia instead.
Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:50:50 -0800 The Stranger
According to the conservatives if you grow the economy fast enough then rich people can be ridiculously rich and poor people can have enough that they won't die in the street(which is good enough because poor people are poor because they aren't virtuous enough). The thing is that conservatives have said this since at least Reagan.

According to liberal economists, otoh, no matter how fast you grow the pie capitalism naturally trends towards concentration of wealth. Rich people get richer and poor people get more poor.
Posted by GhostDog]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:37:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:37:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:34:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Free Lunch]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:33:54 -0800 The Stranger Top Republicans tell us Ryan tried to push his ideas for a more creative “war on poverty” during the presidential campaign but was muzzled by nervous Nellies at Mitt Romney’s Boston headquarters who didn’t see an immediate political payoff. So Ryan seethed when the “47 percent” tape emerged, convinced that the impact was worse because the campaign had no record on issues relating to inclusion or poverty, exacerbating the out-of-touch image that the hidden camera cemented.

What an idiot.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:58:09 -0800 The Stranger
@ 8, it wasn't being a failed VP candidate that ended Edwards' career. Remember, he was actually up there with Obama and HRC in the early stages of the Democratic nomination process. Also, Bentson was old and still got to be an important senator. Same with Lieberman, who was a major power in the Senate during most of the Bush years and who won re-election in 2006 after he lost the primary. So at least safely entrenched senators can continue to have a decent career if they lose.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:42:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by neoanderthal]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:41:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sarah70]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:37:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Proteus]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:32:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by DOUG.]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:27:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fletc3her]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:21:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by wxPDX]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:07:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:06:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:03:11 -0800 The Stranger