“My guy?” Michael Badnarik? Bob Barr?
Even you’re disowning him now?
Never “owned” Bush, you fucking idiot. We’ve been thru this before. Go find a post from me approving of anything Bush has done during either of his terms.
Canary in the coal mine time re: public debt -
#1 Zimbabwe (yikes!)
#3 Japan (ummm… K…)
Note to Obama… stay away from the #1 slot.
Seriously. We have natural resources to pay off all our debt tenfold.
Yeah, man! Both parties are the same, man! Don’t vote, there’s no point! puff
This probably referred to the debate moderated by Gibson. Gibson pointed out that when capital gains taxes were lowered (the opposite of what Obama proposed) under both Clinton and Bush, overall tax revenue actually increased, so how could Obama argue for such a change? Obama’s response was something along the lines of, it’s an issue of fairness. As I recall, he stipulated that whether or not revenue would decrease as a result of the tax increase, it was still best to raise the capital gains tax, since all those rich guys who benefited from it needed a good ol’ fashioned dose of fairness. And maybe this time tax revenue wouldn’t decrease, if vibrations in the Force were favorable. Or some other nonsense. It wasn’t Obama’s finest moment in the debates.
Anyway, it was in that debate if you want to get the actual quotes.