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fixed that for ya i kinda wonder about the neighborhood you live in, with the nannies and the gardeners and the housekeepers etc. i'm kinda thinking this ain't the set most affected by the downturn, doncha think? Well, how did *you* interpret this original quote from j_b: "all the expenses incurred because there isn't a homemaker" What fucking expenses? I assumed he is talking about childcare (a nanny), house cleaning, etc.

fixed that for ya What neighborhood do you live in? AD HOMINEM!!

fixed that for ya

Bullshit. People live beyond their means all the time - houses that are too expensive, cars they don't need, expensive vacations, etc.

GOOD THING HE GOT THAT 1/3 OFF ON THAT CRITICAL PIECE OF FURNITURE - A 46 INCH HDTV!!!!

wow, man, you must be rich. obviously you have fucked over many many people less fortunate than you to get where you are. you need to pay much much more - it's only fair.

and if your prop taxes were doubled, to 600/mo, that would not impact your lifestyle or savings at all? that additional 300 bucks is just completely "extra" and unnecessary?

Liberals seem to think corporations are running insane and unfair profit margins. You can just raise taxes and all it does it take away chump change from greedy bastards making too much. Maybe the situation is a lot more like you are describing? Small businesses, anyone? Nah, just raise taxes on corps. Like I said you are making a different argument. I am saying if you tax enough, corporations will have pressure to raise prices and simply pass it on to the consumer. If that is not possible, well you could be fucking the business over leading them to cut jobs, or possibly go out of business. Running a loss every year doesn't work. Well, unless you can then secure a gov't bail-out. How long you willing to run a $300 a month loss?

Source? BTW, if you think your taxes are too low, nothing is stopping you from voluntarily cutting a check to Washington DC or Olympia.

Umm, yeah...

You're making a different argument for not raising taxes - for small businesses. Nice job - you may actually become a republifuck eventually! Renting is a business and you do expect to make a profit eventually, right? I mean, if your costs are higher (raised taxes), you're honestly just gonna suck up the costs, and never pass it on to your renters? Not just now, but when the economy turns around?

Landlords don't pay property taxes, tenants do. Exactly - double the landlord's property tax, and guess what happens to the rent for the tenants?

Indeed, and in the meantime some shit that needs to get done stagnates.

The voters are tired of the gov't constantly raising taxes instead of working the other end of the equation. When times get tough the avg. person can't just give themselves a pay increase, but that's what the gov't continually does through taxation. Why is it that the gov't needs proportionally more and more (larger percentage) of what the citizens produce? Seems to me there should be some sort of equilibrium level with very little variation over time. Instead we see an upwards trending slope.

Sounds more like you.

It would be nice if the federal, state, and local gov'ts all saved during times of plenty instead of spending every last dime... you know so they'd have cash on hand during the economic troughs.

HOW'S THAT WORKIN' OUT FOR 'YA?? A lot better than your student loans.

corporations don't pay taxes, fuckwit, the consumer does

It's the TTK self-reply syndrome

You can't squeeze blood from a stone.

Who takes *you* seriously around here, prole?

That's because anything other than direct quotes from Mao's Little Red Book look like that to you. All that the author of the above quote is doing is pointing out that the reason that most mainstream economists were so profoundly useless in the last crisis is that sometime around the mid-1940's they got lost in an idealized, purely mathematical meta-world that resembled a market economy about as much as "World of Warcraft" resembles the real world.

It appears to be a term of endearment from j_b.

how about get a life?