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He got two out of ten correct
Amazing how close John Birch rhetoric is to today's TeaTards
he'd have to do better than 50% to overcome chance..He got two out of ten correct
Amazing how close John Birch rhetoric is to today's TeaTards
2. Higher and then much higher taxes.there has been increased government spending
Those 1950s gambits lowered tax liabilities but dissuaded individuals from engaging in the more beneficial activities of increasing their incomes and expanding their businesses. As a result, they were a net drag on the economy. When Ronald Reagan finally lowered rates in the 1980s, he did so in exchange for scrapping uneconomical deductions. When business owners stopped trying to figure out how to lose money, the economy boomed.
It's hard to determine how much otherwise taxable income disappeared through tax shelters in the 1950s. As a result, direct comparisons between the 1950s and now are difficult. However, it is worth noting that from 1958 to 2010, the taxes paid by the top 3% of earners, as a percentage of total personal income (which can't be reduced by shelters), increased to 3.96% from 2.72%, while the percentage paid by the bottom two-thirds of filers fell to 0.51% in 2010 from 2.7%. This starker division of relative tax burdens can be explained by the inability of upper-income groups to shelter income.
It is a testament to the shallow nature of the national economic conversation that higher tax rates can be justified by reference to a fantasya 91% marginal rate that hardly any top earners paid.
In reality, tax policies that diminish the incentives and capacities of innovators, business owners and investors will not spur economic improvement. Such policies will, however, satisfy the instincts of those who want to "stick it to the rich." Never mind that the rich have already been stuck fairly well.
The notion that half of Americans dont pay taxes not only overstates the share of households that do not pay federal income taxes in a typical year. It also ignores the other taxes people pay, including federal payroll taxes and state and local taxes. Policymakers, pundits, and others sometimes overlook this point.
At a Senate Finance Committee hearing in May 2011, Senator Charles Grassley said, According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, 49 percent of households are paying 100 percent of taxes coming in to the federal government (meaning that the other 51 percent pay no federal tax whatsoever). At the same hearing, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds asserted, Poor people dont pay taxes in this country. In 2010, Fox Business host Stuart Varney said on Fox and Friends, Yes, 47 percent of households pay not a single dime in taxes.[13]
None of these assertions are correct. As the Tax Policy Centers Howard Gleckman noted regarding a TPC estimate that almost half of Americans owed no federal income tax in 2009, rarely has a bit of data been so misunderstood, or so misused. Gleckman wrote:
Let me explain repeat actually what [the figure] means: About half of taxpayers paid no federal income tax last year. It does not mean they paid no tax at all. Many shelled out Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes. [ .] Some paid property taxes and, it is fair to say, just about all of them paid sales taxes of one kind or another. So to say they pay no taxes is flat wrong.[14]
half right, we do not have higher taxes.
Inflation has been mild he last ten years
The next graph shows the link between government deficits and inflation pre1980. Notice the surges in inflation (yellow line) after each major deficit (blue line).
Deficits = INFLATION
Lastly, the graph below shows how inflation and interest rates move together.
INFLATION = HIGHER INTEREST RATES
With the threat of inflation declared dead, the US proceeded to run massive budget deficits
Amazing isn't it? After 1980, no more painful budget decision making: the US could now print all the money it wanted without any inflationary consequences! Deficits stopped mattering.
There is no government control of prices and wages
And I suppose you will now tell us that HUD doesn't exist, that more and subsidized housing doesn't exist, food stamps don't affect market prices, farm subsidies and energy subsidies have no affect on the market, etc. etc. etc.Minorities and the poor are hit hardest by the minimum wage
They also benefit the most from a minimum wage hike
Not even close. We do not control the means of production. EVERY operation of our economy? Is he serious?
our state borders are just fine thank you
Federal government does not control the educational system, State and local controls 90%
Communsm has failed. We have yet to surrender on their terms......they have adopted capitalism
We're a paper tiger, nothing more. A construct of the international banking elites. How long do you think it can last?Never happened, we are more powerful than in 1958
1. Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
2. Higher and then much higher taxes.there has been increased government spending
Taxes are lower than 1958
I loved the video and ignore the Liberal response to it.
We have gone in the wrong direction for far too long, and the Gov't has gotten too large...........
To the detriment of our country and it's future............
Great Video and thread Intense.
It's a brilliant speech and I agree with what the John Birch Society advised starting with number one :
Restore complete independence to the USA. Get us out of the United Nations and get the United Nations out of the United States. He makes clear that this is the single most important thing to do and that is why it is on the list as number one.
Why we didn't heed his warning is hard to tell. What will happen because we didn't isn't. America is in big trouble. This video ought to be mass emailed across the nation until someone pays attention to it.
Congressman Larry McDonald ( 1st cousin to General Patton ) was the president of John Birch Society when his plane was shot down over Russian air space. He was a great threat to the communists. Congressman McDonald sounded the alarm - that communism was infitrating America via the United Nations, NGO's such as Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, CFR, he named names and made the agenda known on an interview called Crossfire. Great video, Intense! Thank you.
1. Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
there has been increased government spending
Ya think?!
2. Higher and then much higher taxes.
Taxes are lower than 1958
Bullshit. There were higher marginal brackets for federal income taxes in 1958, but when you consider total tax burden (federal, state and local), Americans are paying more, or at least as much as they did in 1958.
3. An increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.
half right, we do not have higher taxes.
Repeating your false statement will not make it so.
4. Wild inflation of our currency.
Inflation has been mild he last ten years
Bullshit again. No one cares about official government stats for inflation, which conveniently omit energy and food prices. When you actually look at what people buy, what it takes for people to survive, prices have risen dramatically...and this during a terrible recession! Demand is down, prices should be DOWN!
5. Government controls of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.
There is no government control of prices and wages
And yet ANOTHER lie. What in the fuck do you think the Federal Reserve does? It is a central control over the price of money, the interest rate. And no control of wages? Really? What do you call the various minimum wages imposed by governments, state and federal? Good God man, you're not even close.
6. Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondently huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and the cost and reach of our domestic government.
Not even close. We do not control the means of production. EVERY operation of our economy? Is he serious?
Are you really going to argue that since 1958 we haven't seen increased socialistic controls? He did not say government would control the means of production, but that it would increase control, which it sure as hell has. No one could possibly deny that.
7. Far more centralization of power in Washington and the practical elimination of our state lines. There is a many faceted drive at work to have our state lines to mean no more within our nation as our county lines do now within the states.
our state borders are just fine thank you
When it comes to issues like interstate commerce, the fuck they are. There is no denying the Feds have weakened states rights. You just couldn't be this delusional.
8. The steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
Federal government does not control the educational system, State and local controls 90%
And yet, he was correct. The Feds have steadily advanced control over public education and there is every indication they plan on increasing that central planning. Common core anyone?
9. A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. The beauties and the absolute necessities of peach, peace always on communist terms of course.
Communsm has failed. We have yet to surrender on their terms......they have adopted capitalism
While we have moved ever more towards central planning. One would think we'd learn from their failed experiments. Guess not.
10. Piece meal surrendering of the US
Never happened, we are more powerful than in 1958
Once again, bullshit. We are nowhere near the dominate power we were then. We are nowhere near as free. The Progressives, as always, have made the problems they sought to fix worse than ever.
1. Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
there has been increased government spending
Ya think?!
2. Higher and then much higher taxes.
Taxes are lower than 1958
Bullshit. There were higher marginal brackets for federal income taxes in 1958, but when you consider total tax burden (federal, state and local), Americans are paying more, or at least as much as they did in 1958.
3. An increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.
half right, we do not have higher taxes.
Repeating your false statement will not make it so.
4. Wild inflation of our currency.
Inflation has been mild he last ten years
Bullshit again. No one cares about official government stats for inflation, which conveniently omit energy and food prices. When you actually look at what people buy, what it takes for people to survive, prices have risen dramatically...and this during a terrible recession! Demand is down, prices should be DOWN!
5. Government controls of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.
There is no government control of prices and wages
And yet ANOTHER lie. What in the fuck do you think the Federal Reserve does? It is a central control over the price of money, the interest rate. And no control of wages? Really? What do you call the various minimum wages imposed by governments, state and federal? Good God man, you're not even close.
6. Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondently huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and the cost and reach of our domestic government.
Not even close. We do not control the means of production. EVERY operation of our economy? Is he serious?
Are you really going to argue that since 1958 we haven't seen increased socialistic controls? He did not say government would control the means of production, but that it would increase control, which it sure as hell has. No one could possibly deny that.
7. Far more centralization of power in Washington and the practical elimination of our state lines. There is a many faceted drive at work to have our state lines to mean no more within our nation as our county lines do now within the states.
our state borders are just fine thank you
When it comes to issues like interstate commerce, the fuck they are. There is no denying the Feds have weakened states rights. You just couldn't be this delusional.
8. The steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
Federal government does not control the educational system, State and local controls 90%
And yet, he was correct. The Feds have steadily advanced control over public education and there is every indication they plan on increasing that central planning. Common core anyone?
9. A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. The beauties and the absolute necessities of peach, peace always on communist terms of course.
Communsm has failed. We have yet to surrender on their terms......they have adopted capitalism
While we have moved ever more towards central planning. One would think we'd learn from their failed experiments. Guess not.
10. Piece meal surrendering of the US
Never happened, we are more powerful than in 1958
Once again, bullshit. We are nowhere near the dominate power we were then. We are nowhere near as free. The Progressives, as always, have made the problems they sought to fix worse than ever.
You were saying something about FAIL???
1. Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
there has been increased government spending
Ya think?!
2. Higher and then much higher taxes.
Taxes are lower than 1958
Bullshit. There were higher marginal brackets for federal income taxes in 1958, but when you consider total tax burden (federal, state and local), Americans are paying more, or at least as much as they did in 1958.
3. An increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.
half right, we do not have higher taxes.
Repeating your false statement will not make it so.
4. Wild inflation of our currency.
Inflation has been mild he last ten years
Bullshit again. No one cares about official government stats for inflation, which conveniently omit energy and food prices. When you actually look at what people buy, what it takes for people to survive, prices have risen dramatically...and this during a terrible recession! Demand is down, prices should be DOWN!
5. Government controls of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.
There is no government control of prices and wages
And yet ANOTHER lie. What in the fuck do you think the Federal Reserve does? It is a central control over the price of money, the interest rate. And no control of wages? Really? What do you call the various minimum wages imposed by governments, state and federal? Good God man, you're not even close.
6. Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondently huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and the cost and reach of our domestic government.
Not even close. We do not control the means of production. EVERY operation of our economy? Is he serious?
Are you really going to argue that since 1958 we haven't seen increased socialistic controls? He did not say government would control the means of production, but that it would increase control, which it sure as hell has. No one could possibly deny that.
7. Far more centralization of power in Washington and the practical elimination of our state lines. There is a many faceted drive at work to have our state lines to mean no more within our nation as our county lines do now within the states.
our state borders are just fine thank you
When it comes to issues like interstate commerce, the fuck they are. There is no denying the Feds have weakened states rights. You just couldn't be this delusional.
8. The steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
Federal government does not control the educational system, State and local controls 90%
And yet, he was correct. The Feds have steadily advanced control over public education and there is every indication they plan on increasing that central planning. Common core anyone?
9. A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. The beauties and the absolute necessities of peach, peace always on communist terms of course.
Communsm has failed. We have yet to surrender on their terms......they have adopted capitalism
While we have moved ever more towards central planning. One would think we'd learn from their failed experiments. Guess not.
10. Piece meal surrendering of the US
Never happened, we are more powerful than in 1958
Once again, bullshit. We are nowhere near the dominate power we were then. We are nowhere near as free. The Progressives, as always, have made the problems they sought to fix worse than ever.
You were saying something about FAIL???
I agree
Those predictions could not be further from the truth.
But we are talking about John Birchers here. When have they ever been right about anything?
You were saying something about FAIL???
I agree
Those predictions could not be further from the truth.
So typical. I called you out on every bullshit claim you made, so you double down on the lies. Yep, that's about what we've come to expect...
But we are talking about John Birchers here. When have they ever been right about anything?
Got it. When you have nothing to back up your claims, launch an ad hominem attack. Works every time...