Would you vote for a 3% tax hike on your income?

Started by merithyn, November 27, 2012, 09:55:24 AM

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Read the OP

Yes, definitely
11 (33.3%)
Yes, but with reservations
6 (18.2%)
Possibly, if the referendum were worded the right way
3 (9.1%)
No, but with reservations
4 (12.1%)
No, absolutely not
9 (27.3%)

Total Members Voted: 32

The Minsky Moment

My position is the reverse of Valmy's
I'll pay the tax but only if its spent.  On infrastructure improvement.
This country is rapidly heading to a third world quality infrastructure - and perhaps worse now that the more discerning countries in the third world are investing heavily in their own.
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


derspiess

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 27, 2012, 04:13:47 PM
My position is the reverse of Valmy's
I'll pay the tax but only if its spent.  On infrastructure improvement.
This country is rapidly heading to a third world quality infrastructure - and perhaps worse now that the more discerning countries in the third world are investing heavily in their own.

Obama talking points FTW!
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

merithyn

Quote from: derspiess on November 27, 2012, 04:25:59 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 27, 2012, 04:13:47 PM
My position is the reverse of Valmy's
I'll pay the tax but only if its spent.  On infrastructure improvement.
This country is rapidly heading to a third world quality infrastructure - and perhaps worse now that the more discerning countries in the third world are investing heavily in their own.

Obama talking points FTW!

:huh:

I've never heard Obama say that. :unsure:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

derspiess

Quote from: merithyn on November 27, 2012, 04:31:17 PM
Quote from: derspiess on November 27, 2012, 04:25:59 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 27, 2012, 04:13:47 PM
My position is the reverse of Valmy's
I'll pay the tax but only if its spent.  On infrastructure improvement.
This country is rapidly heading to a third world quality infrastructure - and perhaps worse now that the more discerning countries in the third world are investing heavily in their own.

Obama talking points FTW!

:huh:

I've never heard Obama say that. :unsure:

Apparently you never heard of his stimulus proposals, then.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Admiral Yi

Yeah, it was about the only non-negative talking point during the campaign.

"A small tax increase on the very wealthy, so that they pay their fair share, part of which will be used to rebuild our nation's infrastructure and invest in education [sometimes he added in police]."

Kleves

He's also winding down the wars overseas in order to do nation-building at home.  Though maybe that just means that he's going to start authorizing drone strikes on the House GOP.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

11B4V

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

The Minsky Moment

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

Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Ed Anger

I'd vote for a tax rise if it meant no more tax threads.....EVAR.

Poors. :rolleyes:
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Razgovory

Quote from: derspiess on November 27, 2012, 04:33:48 PM
Quote from: merithyn on November 27, 2012, 04:31:17 PM
Quote from: derspiess on November 27, 2012, 04:25:59 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 27, 2012, 04:13:47 PM
My position is the reverse of Valmy's
I'll pay the tax but only if its spent.  On infrastructure improvement.
This country is rapidly heading to a third world quality infrastructure - and perhaps worse now that the more discerning countries in the third world are investing heavily in their own.

Obama talking points FTW!

:huh:

I've never heard Obama say that. :unsure:

Apparently you never heard of his stimulus proposals, then.

Stimulus proposals are not the unique territory of Obama.  Or Democrats.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

dps

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 27, 2012, 05:03:07 PM
Quote from: derspiess on November 27, 2012, 04:25:59 PM
Obama talking points FTW!

So?
He's right on the issue.

Infrastructure is one of the few things the government spends money on that I approve of.

DGuller

Hello no.  Unlike my cigar lighters, I'm not made of money.