Actually their program is backed by rock-hard research. The carried interest loophole is exactly that - a loophole. There’s no reason why a subset of financiers should have lower tax rates than, say, CEOs of technology firms. The Tobin tax was designed by a Nobel Laurette economist and has widespread though certainly not unanimous backing. Postal banks are enjoyed in many OECD countries - to characterize this as a fairy tale is just pure ignorance.
Sorry, but the unicorns and sparkleponies are all on the Republican side now. No magic wall is going to keep out all 'dem furrners and Mexico isn’t going to pay for it. Our new friend Giraffes Can’t Dance provides a pretty good presentation of the modern conservative mentality: he sincerely believes that if he asserts something, it must be true: they can’t wrap their minds around the substantiation concept.
Given that you are not prepared to do your own work, you can hardly expect to be taken seriously when you criticize other people for not doing your work for you.
These are your claims, Giraffe. If you want us to believe them, you need to offer us some shred of a reason for doing so. Think about it logically; if we have no reason to believe your claims, why would we believe them?
Denouncing us as “leftists” when we point this out just gives the impression that you don’t know what the word “leftist” means, which is probably not the impression that you’re trying to create.
You lazy bums have to do a little work for yourselves, so I’ll let you look up the accounts of sexual-assaults that were so prevalent in occupy camps, that women were forced to find safe places in their own secure tents.
Just conspiracy filled sites and not much evidence,** now those are lazy efforts**. in any case it is clear that you do not read cites, the Reuters one only showed that Soros is not directly involved, but one can say that there is support from the groups he funds but it is really silly to put all the money an organization has as coming from Soros alone.
BTW I already reported that much to the chagrin of many conservatives there are is a lot of rich people that do recognize that what it is really unamerican is to try to act like if movements should be pure and die just because they are not funded, what I see here is just a variation of the Serengeti strategy, demonize a few people that is involved in making a fairer society so as to deny that there is a lot more than just one that is aware that the American experiment will fail when opportunity is denied to many of their citizens.
And I just noticed, Newsbusters and Intellihub in particular are using the Washington “moonie” Times as a source. As if they needed to be discredited more.
Lets remember that he was replying to the poster that told us that “Leftists hate things like facts, science and math.” As seen already cites were provided that showed the opposite and were deftly avoided by the poster.
Of course seeing the sources he is using only demonstrated that he is not capable of identifying bad sources of information, with misleading information that it is only geared to divide people, and the intention of the people misinforming others is to “help some powerful people to get rid of meddlesome priests” as a king said once.
A couple of quick points, because this has gotten comical rather quickly:
• So you can use your leftist sources to refute? That’s fair game? This is the kind of partisan thinking that has turned many Americans off to politics. It also highlights the dishonesty being expressed by media outlets on both sides. I mean, have you viewed Brietbart’s drooling over Trump?
• I’ll apologize for how aggressively I pushed my point. Such efforts were not my intent from the onset of this discussion. I’ve simply grown tired of all the partisan nonsense. Stark denial of George Soros’ puppetry as it relates to leftist “movements” is purely partisan. Leftists love to highlight the financial endeavors of the Koch brothers, why refuting their own wealthy financier.
• I saw that Donald Trump was mentioned a few times. If I was guilty of aggressively pushing my point, you were guilt of trying to slander me by associating me with such an ignoramus.
I am an independent, almost libertarian, who is secular is his beliefs. I am as disgusted by leftists, as I am the religious right. I despise Donald Trump, as much as I despise Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
• The political discourse in this counry is beyond embarrassing. I apologize if my tone was insulting. Il work on that.
Occupy Wall Street failed because the Democrat Party is Wall Street. Clinton has made millions making speeches to Wall Street. Her son-in-law is being funded by Goldman Sachs’ CEO Blankfein. Former New Jersey Governor Democrat Jon Corzine was the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Rahm Emanuel made millions on Wall Street. Elizabeth Warren refuses to audit the Federal Reserve. The list is endless. Democrats are playing good cop, bad cop and pocketing billions.
Yes. BTW many conservatives like RedState, the National Review and many other conservatives are not willing to reach for bullshit politics. (That is a reference to joined to the hip Sarah Palin, even there behind the scenes the smart Republicans knew the crap they needed to polish in 2008)
You should be aware that I do not shy away from that support, the point however stands that what you are doing here is to condone the total suppression of the speech of people like him. Even if he is not involved in what he is accused of.
Sorry, but that is the front person of the conservative party as we speak, we should deal with it.
Well, the reality is that just by using science (an issue you specifically mentioned) the choice is clear, it is not the Donald.
No sweat, just be aware of the basic rule, attack the points not the poster.