tax unemployment benefits: a Reagan administration idea

[Dante]

tax unemployment benefits: a Reagan administration idea

I'd bet very few remember this fact

 

[Dante]

"A faceless mass, waiting for handouts."
Ronald Reagan, 1965. (Reagan describing Medicaid recipients.)

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
California Governor Ronald Reagan, in the Sacramento Bee, April 28, 1966

"He demonstrated for all to see how far you can go in this life with a smile, a shoeshine and the nerve to put your own spin on the facts."
David Nyhan, Boston Globe columnist

 

[Moonglow]

He also wanted to tax social security..

 

[whitehall]

Liberals seem to think all money belongs to the government and they only let us use it for a while. In the case of unemployment insurance the money really does belong to the government so they can get some of it back if they want to. Social security and pensions are taxed. There ain't a dime laying around that the government doesn't have it's greedy eye on.

 

[Dante]

He also wanted to tax social security..

yup, tax the little guy. right wing economic theories

 

[Moonglow]

What I am ashamed of is. I voted for him in 1980...

 

[Indeependent]

He also wanted to tax social security..

yup, tax the little guy. right wing economic theories

Are you sure?
I thought it was Fvk the little guy.

 

[Dante]

What I am ashamed of is. I voted for him in 1980...

2008, who did you vote for?

 

[Moonglow]

Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney

 

[Dante]

Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney

Not very good at picking winners?

 

[Moonglow]

Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney

Not very good at picking winners?

I don't see any winners.

 

[Dante]

Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney

Not very good at picking winners?

I don't see any winners.

elections get won and this has consequences. It's why I don't support throwing away votes

 

[Moonglow]

Voting for Mittens or Oblama is not throwing away votes?

 

[Indeependent]

What I am ashamed of is. I voted for him in 1980...

2008, who did you vote for?

2008...For Palin.
2012...Against Romney.

 

[Dante]

What I am ashamed of is. I voted for him in 1980...

2008, who did you vote for?

2008...For Palin.
2012...Against Romney.

so neither of you vote in primaries?

 

[Dante]

Voting for Mittens or Oblama is not throwing away votes?

Nope. Not in the real world. Given choices. We are given choices. We do not get to individually select who the final choices will be, but if we are involved in local and party politics we do get a stronger voice.

If I were a Green backed I would tirelessly try and convince through argument, my fellow citizens to vote with me.

Having an argument or platform that no one backs is silly.

 

[Moonglow]

not really. The state I live in requires you to declare your party and vote only according to party line, which I am against. you should be able to vote for whatever party you want in the primaries.

 

[Dante]

not really. The state I live in requires you to declare your party and vote only according to party line, which I am against. you should be able to vote for whatever party you want in the primaries.

you can register to vote in any party primary


true story

 

[Moonglow]

Sure, but I want to vote for whatever party I want.

 

[Dante]

Sure, but I want to vote for whatever party I want.

you can. you disagree with the process but how does that lead to your misinformed and unfair characterizations of truth and fact?