Comments on: Stimulating Policy http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/22/stimulating-policy/ The FreedomWorks blog dedicated to lower taxes and more freedom. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mister Guy http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/22/stimulating-policy/#comment-74721 Mister Guy Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:32:31 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/22/stimulating-policy/#comment-74721 Sure, everthing is coming up roses...we believe you guys...surely we do... "the fact that Bush has indicated he’ll largely leave the details of the policy to Congress" Do you think this has to do with the fact that the Bush Presidency is basically over at this point? The Democratic Congress proactively started working on a stimulus package last year. Do you think that Bush's promised tax cuts when he was running for office in 2000 was an effort to buy votes as well then? Sure, everthing is coming up roses…we believe you guys…surely we do…

“the fact that Bush has indicated he’ll largely leave the details of the policy to Congress”

Do you think this has to do with the fact that the Bush Presidency is basically over at this point? The Democratic Congress proactively started working on a stimulus package last year.

Do you think that Bush’s promised tax cuts when he was running for office in 2000 was an effort to buy votes as well then?

]]> By: Sickle http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/22/stimulating-policy/#comment-74605 Sickle Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:51:32 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/2008/01/22/stimulating-policy/#comment-74605 Yes, Wayne Brough, CSE's own bought-and-paid-for academic, again writing that slashing corporate income tax rates which "would strengthen the economy and improve American global competitiveness while creating new jobs." Of course, the last time this very thing was attempted, none of those things came to pass. Though executive salaries and stock prices went up, real wages declined, America became less competitive, and no new living-wage jobs were created. Brough's probably right about further regulations in the housing sector, but he's just another corporatist free-market guy who read too much Ayn Rand and is frankly naive about how this stuff actually works. Yes, Wayne Brough, CSE’s own bought-and-paid-for academic, again writing that slashing corporate income tax rates which “would strengthen the economy and improve American global competitiveness while creating new jobs.” Of course, the last time this very thing was attempted, none of those things came to pass. Though executive salaries and stock prices went up, real wages declined, America became less competitive, and no new living-wage jobs were created. Brough’s probably right about further regulations in the housing sector, but he’s just another corporatist free-market guy who read too much Ayn Rand and is frankly naive about how this stuff actually works.

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