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Obviously, debt is a major problem, but we are in an entirely different position because we have something the other countries don't -- an ability to get out of our debt problems via inflation/printing money.

Well, they don't have an economics argument, as frode showed with his graph - it would have less than zero effect on debt reduction. They only have a populist attack.

Speaking of Buffett, if he really thinks he owes more taxes, he could start with the BILLION in back taxes he owes. Yeah.

True, but that just rapes us in a different way. And if our credit rating goes down again, it's going to be even more difficult for us.

Yeah Romney had originally said that he was fine only cutting taxes for middle income.e earners and restructuring the tax code in ways that might hit him more, but with the endorsement of Ryan's plan I think he lost his leg to stand on. Before he was a rich guy saying he wanted to cut taxes for the middle class and small businesses, now he can more easily be painted as a rich guy who wants to cut his own taxes

Stop watching MSNBC. There are literally entire departments that are completely useless you could eliminate. How about we take a break from bombing brown people overseas and bring our troops home from GERMANY? We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending and borrowing problem. We borrow $40,000 dollars a second. Did you know if you abolished the income tax right now the federal government would have as much revenue as we did in 2002?

That's simply not true. Expenditures are far outpacing any fluctuations in revenue; anyone can see that. The problem is further exacerbated because unemployment is both decreasing the number of taxpayers and increasing the number of people receiving government benefits.

You can increase revenue by significantly increasing the number of employed people, and broadening the tax base...even before you talk about a change in tax rates.

the Ryan budget doesn't take a penny away from the military nor does it reduce the funding levels to the Clinton years before the two wars. I'm all for stopping the bombing of brown peoples but the Ryan budget treats the military like a sacred cow. Personally, I'd rather flush money on people's well being than bombs... but that's just me.

Romney was 47th in the country in creating jobs when Governor and when he "saved" the olympics he got the federal government to hand him 1.3 billion dollars to do so. I'm not so sure Romney is going to be able to school anyone on anything unless it involves being a Wall street type that buys companies and fire-sales them when making outrageous amounts of money for a select few. This idea that Romney is some great economic savior is the easiest target I've seen in a while.

well....there are a couple good articles that point some real head scrathcers with the polls. The ABC/WP poll that has Obama up 7...used a +11 Democratic Model. Im not sure I get that at all. Thats way inflated. Even in 2008...a perfect storm for DEms....the turnout was only +7.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/10/wapoabc-poll-adds-seven-points-to-dem-advantage-in-sample/

So...while Rasmussen does poll LV instead of just RV.....I think a much bigger issue is what modeling assumptions people are making.

I don't think that's what trickle down economics is at all

I'll grant you this statement, if you own up to the fact that Obama lost 8 million jobs and that GM is profitable because it is producing cars with 68 thousand fewer workers and government ownership/sponsorship.

Massachusetts got killed by the dot.com debacle.