Crazy a$$ thought for the day
If 2 wars, Tax Cuts, Defense Spending, Derugulation out the whazzo, privatizing everything were supposed to be good for the economy
AND, not signing the Kyoto Protocol, not raising CAFE standards, not supporting infrastructure were all supposed to be bad for the economy can someone tell me what will work?s
Don’t ask Mike Castle – Rush Limbaugh hasn’t told him what to think yet today.
More tax cuts! Cut corporate taxes while you’re at it! [/snark]
“The market does not drive scientists, thinkers, or governments to do the right things. Only by paying attention and making people care can we make as much progress as we need to.” – Bill Gates, yesterday.
What he left out is that the market does not drive businesses or consumers to do the right things, either. The current collapse is proof of that, for those who’ve forgotten the lessons of the Great Depression.
Legalize pot and hash. 😎
I’m with you VC. Let’s tax drugs. While we’re at it can we tax stock speculation?
And prostitution and gambling whilst we’re on the subject.. where are the liberetarians to rally behind me… paging Dr. Newton… Dr. Steve Newton… white courtesy phone…
Duffster, Tyler Milhouse Nixon… anybody?
Going back to Cassandra’s Abstinence-clown post, we can tax Punching-The-Clown, too. OMG. BILLIONS, especially from the teen-age sect. Did you read that? BILL-YUNS!!!!
LOL, DG. (I named my cat Milhous).
Amen to all of it. There are now both (mainstream) liberal and conservative columnists and wonks calling for marijuana de-prohibition.
(I call it de-prohibition because “legalization” is a drug war misnomer – implying the state “permits” us to do something by not prohibiting it).
I believe real drug policy reform is much closer at hand than the DC drug war narcocracy would ever admit. Like most good policy reforms it will come last to the geniuses of Mount Olympus on the Potomac, having already bubbled up from the grass roots and worked its way into the laws of a majority of states.
It would also help if Obama didn’t repeatedly break his promise to stop police-state medical marijuana raids by the DEA. These dispensaries are people’s livelihoods and the result of a lot of hard work and personal investment. They are state-law sanctioned above-board businesses (thus low-hanging fruit for the drug war thugs).
http://reason.com/blog/show/131513.html
Let’s go, President Obama. Stop making yourself a campaign bullshit artist. The DEA is ruining lives of people you promised would not face such police state tactics under your tenure.
Derugulation out the whazzo
Is this the pulling out of rugs out the wazoo??
Seriously though, this is bulls**t. Cite the case, counselor.
Bush enacted more regulations than any president in history, including his slew of midnight regulations on his way out the door.
The problem was failure of enforcement by his minions against his crony pig buddies with wealth. But then we all know that was a “bi-partisan” affair.
Kyoto was dropped by the Senate years ago as a bad bill, It is still flawed. Since the Bill China is the leading polluter but does not face the ravages of the Kyoto regulations like America would have.
What was privatized? Be specific please.
Massive deregulation? Where? Be specific please.