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Started by Siege, February 05, 2015, 11:50:14 AM

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Which political ideas do you sympathyse with?

Red Communist Party - Command economy
7 (19.4%)
Pink Socialist - Democrat Left (Obama, Kerry, Carter) - Welfare State
14 (38.9%)
Democrat Center (Clintons, LBJ) - Big Goverment
5 (13.9%)
Republican establishment- Big Goverment  (Bushes, Romney, McCain)
2 (5.6%)
Constitutional Conservative - Tea Party - small goverment (Reagan, Cruz, Goldwater)
8 (22.2%)

Total Members Voted: 35

garbon

Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 05, 2015, 07:19:50 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 05, 2015, 07:18:45 PM
And doesn't use a single tax dollar anyway.

It uses nothing but tax dollars.  :huh:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/cellphone.asp

QuoteThe Lifeline program is not directly subsidized by taxpayer monies. It is paid for out of the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) through a fee assessed against telecommunications service providers, who may or may not pass those costs along to their customers:
All telecommunications service providers and certain other providers of telecommunications must contribute to the federal USF based on a percentage of their interstate and international end-user telecommunications revenues. These companies include wireline phone companies, wireless phone companies, paging service companies and certain Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.

Some consumers may notice a "Universal Service" line item on their telephone bills. This line item appears when a company chooses to recover its USF contributions directly from its customers by billing them this charge. The FCC does not require this charge to be passed on to customers. Each company makes a business decision about whether and how to assess charges to recover its Universal Service costs. These charges usually appear as a percentage of the consumer's phone bill. Companies that choose to collect Universal Service fees from their customers cannot collect an amount that exceeds their contribution to the USF. They also cannot collect any fees from a Lifeline program participant.
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The Minsky Moment

Well . . . it is a charge applied by the government to a private entity, and the incidence of that has to fall somewhere.  But it hardly makes the case out for Obama (or bush or whoever was responsible for it) to be an apostle of BIG G.
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--Joan Robinson

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 05, 2015, 07:19:50 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 05, 2015, 07:18:45 PM
And doesn't use a single tax dollar anyway.

It uses nothing but tax dollars.  :huh:

Wrong, FOXNewsboi.

QuoteWhere does the money for Lifeline subsidy come from?  You.

Take a look at your phone bill and you'll see a charge -- typically a few dollars a month -- for payments to the "Universal Service Fund." That's the umbrella program covering various ventures, including Lifeline, that are designed to make telephone communications universally available to all Americans.

The government requires most telecoms to pay into the fund. The carriers then typically pass the costs on to their customers as a monthly surcharge. Last year, Lifeline accounted for 20% of the $8.1 billion Universal Service Fund distributed to support connections for rural areas, schools, hospitals and low-income individuals.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/26/technology/mobile/tracfone-free-phones/

CountDeMoney

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on February 05, 2015, 07:25:35 PM
Well . . . it is a charge applied by the government to a private entity, and the incidence of that has to fall somewhere.  But it hardly makes the case out for Obama (or bush or whoever was responsible for it) to be an apostle of BIG G.

But it's not a tax.  Just like one doesn't have to take a shitty no-paying job that keeps one in working poverty, one is not required to pay into it by having a telephone.  See how that goes both ways?

mongers

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on February 05, 2015, 07:25:35 PM
Well . . . it is a charge applied by the government to a private entity, and the incidence of that has to fall somewhere.  But it hardly makes the case out for Obama (or bush or whoever was responsible for it) to be an apostle of BIG G.

He must be; his name starts with a big B too, has an I in it and whilst it doesn't have two Gs, it does have four, count them four As ! Damn, what other proof do you need?
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The Minsky Moment

Truth is we haven't had a big government President since LBJ.  Or a small government one.  There have been differences in priorities and emphasis within the budget but the overall size of the federal government in the economy has remained pretty stable aside from cyclical fluctuation.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Admiral Yi

Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 05, 2015, 07:30:46 PM
But it's not a tax.  Just like one doesn't have to take a shitty no-paying job that keeps one in working poverty, one is not required to pay into it by having a telephone.  See how that goes both ways?

One is not required to have a job, so income tax is...not a tax?

Norgy

Voted Red Communist, obviously. Just for fun.

Ideologue

Voted Red Communist because it's true.
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Eddie Teach

Voted Pink Socialist cause I want to take rich people's money away.  :menace:
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Neil

Quote from: dps on February 05, 2015, 02:56:24 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 05, 2015, 12:28:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 05, 2015, 12:22:13 PM
Quote from: derspiess on February 05, 2015, 12:16:29 PM
He made volumes of speeches from the 60s onward advocating small government.  He continued with that rhetoric through his presidency.  Obviously as pragmatic as he was he had to compromise on some of those principles to get things done.  You're not going to get ideological purity out of any president these days (if ever?).

He oversaw a massive expansion of the military.  That wasn't a compromise, that was his main deal.
That's the thing with "small government" conservatives:  the DoD never counts.
Actually, I wouldn't mind us having a smaller army and maybe a smaller air force.  But I want a bigger navy, maybe even with a few of the battleships Neil so loves.
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Neil

Quote from: dps on February 05, 2015, 04:35:44 PM
He was an officer in the AF when it was still part of the Army, but I don't think he made general until it became a separate service.  Not sure about that though.
He was a lieutenant colonel in the USAAF.  He didn't make major general until he was in the Air Force reserves.

The world would be a better place if the USAF was shoved back under the Army.
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Neil

Also, I voted Pink Socialist.  I'm probably somewhere in there between that and Center Democrat, but I wanted to keep as much distance as possible between myself and the Tea Party types.
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Siege



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