The Oil companies got a tax break, record profits and executive bonuses. We got high gas prices, mazzola in our gas tanks, no new refineries and a $10 trillion deficit. For the millions spent corn oil is all Bush could deliver? The oil companies didn’t do that, Farmer John did for a subsidy.
I think the oil companies and others should be taxed with the money going to pay down the deficit and companies with a VIABLE alternative energy idea. The oil companies have virtually no incentive to do that. It would cut into profits.

Wars aren’t cheap, schools cost money to build and run and if people did what they were supposed to do we wouldn’t have laws.
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they will keep telling you this forever and ever and cook the books to make you believe whatever they want~!!!

when a regular person tries to work and has to pay all these hidden taxes their are, gas, food, commodities in general~!!!

then if one of the two working family menmbers gets the flue, has to take a week or two off, good bye job, goodbye credit card balance, good by food, get behind in utility bills, behind in car payment, whoops insurance payment, whoops licence and registration of vehicle has went up again, but sreets still have pothole that knocked my suspension clean out of whack,
whoops have to go buy new tires, whoops ect….ect…….~!!!!

none of these little things that add up and break OUR backs and bank accounts are ever even noticed by the RULING ELITE when prices go up, and THEIR taxes are lowered~!!!

give me a break, Reagoanomics has never worked and never will~!!!

he was a dope, it dont trickle~!!!
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Bush has been doing tax cuts for the last few years and what have they done? Sent us into a recession that he denies. If you lower taxes and continue to spend like the government does, at some point you have to start borrowing money, thats why the dollar has fallen so far down the ladder. Lower taxes and then ask for 80 billion to send over to Iraq, where do you guys think that money comes from? They print more money which in turn makes the value go down. It’s a simple equation. We continue to borrow from China and rely on their goods that it has sent our currency falling down and saturated our businesses with poisonous low-rate goods that are being distributed to our children…why? Because the government doesn’t have the money to fund all of it’s "adventures" because they lowered taxes. I mean I hate paying taxes but we need to realize that someone has to pay for this stuff.

I travel and I just came back from Amsterdam and Germany and can you believe the Euro is getting close to doubling the American dollar. So at the exchange I had to pay almost $32.00 for 20 euro.

Thats not cool folks
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Based on your implied theory, the best place in the nation to do business should be in Mississippi*. But MS’s share of total national GDP is 0.6%. Even NY surpassed MIssissippi in state GDP growth for the year 2006. (2)

To answer your question, no. Those days are gone. It could only conceivably apply when the TOP MARGINAL RATE was 90%.

Warren Buffet has said even in those days he didn’t wake up wondering if he had entered the top bracket the day before, all he wanted to do was go out and make more money.

Apparently, conservatives aren’t as motivated by greed as their theory proposes- they get lazy once they hit the top bracket.
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*http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/corp_inc.html

2) http://www.bea.gov/regional/gdpmap/GDPMap.aspx

When you make more money, what do you do with it?

Most of us in the Lower and Middle Class tend to spend the money on improving our "things", our house, car, furniture, etc. Does that not mean there is more money flowing in the economy? Does that not mean businesses are earning more money and have to hire more employees to produce the products that are in a greater demand?

For the Upper Class, they invest the money either in larger "things", open new businesses for tax purposes, and/or donate a larger amount to charities. And again, isn’t that putting money back into the economy?

Now think about what democrats want to do, raise taxes on the oil companies because the executives are making so much money. What do you think will happen if they do that? Same thing that has happened with other manufacturing companies, they will move out of this country. How good will that be for the US economy? What’s more, who do you think is going to pay that tax? If the cost of doing business increases, then the cost of the products produced increases. So oil companies produce gas…..

Be afraid of these stupid democrats in Congress. They will force a recession and eventually a depression upon us if they are allowed to.
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It’s political double talk to say you can deliver on all fronts. Raise taxes for the programs and more businesses fail or move off shore. Decrease taxes and watch spending and business reinvests in our economy. It’s our choice.
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