Obama's New Economics

History shows that government run infrastructure job programs do nothing to stimulate the economy. Tax breaks and incentives for small business and consumers do the most good. A flat income tax rate would be a fair thing to do in this country....but we all know the rich just keep getting richer and they are running the government. Money is power and the rest of us poor working slobs will remain just that. Unless Americans start to pay more attention to the politics in this country things will never "change". We need more teaparties to weed out the politicians that are calling real Americans "fakes" and " instigators". Politicians who don't really care about what their constituants want from government should not be reelected. We owe it to ourselves and our children to become more involved and pay attention to what goes on in all aspects of government. We have become lazy and complacent. Our fore fathers would be quite distressed to see us now.

Hokey hernandez of WI 12:59AM November 02, 2009

That someone who 'has a clue on how we can getout of this mess' is not Pelosi, Reid, Frank - and the Democrats who resisted both President Clinton and Republican efforts to REGULATE Fanny/Freddymac regaring the risky mortgages to people who were not qualified. I do not understand how people of either Party or affiliation can ignore this. Why would you think that the same people who caused the dominoes to start to fall are the ones who can be trusted to make it right - considering they are trying to unfairly deflect blame and not accept responsibility.

John Falco of MO 3:20PM October 11, 2008

Why is it that Republicans always want to cut taxes for the rich? That makes no sense at all. I mean think about it. The rich pretty much dictate what people are going to make anyway right? They get to set the wages. So let''s say someone make $30,000 a year and they pay $10,000 in income tax. That person actually only made $20,000 right? So let''s say the govt gets rid of income tax for someone making $30,0000 or less. That person just got a raise yes, but that company wouldn''t have to give that person a raise for the next year, or the year after that. And that could be very beneficial to the company right. And think about this, wouldn''t that make it easier for us to compete for jobs with the rest of the world? If companies didn''t have to pay someone $30,0000 a year, but instead only $20,000 a year then they would be more inclined to keep maunfacturing jobs here than ship them overseas, right. It makes no sense at all to give tax breaks to those that dictate our wages anyway. They just get to make more money, and the workers get whatever the company wants to pay. I think Ron Paul is right on this issue. Getting rid of income tax, at least for low income workers might be the best move this country could make right now. You might want to think that over. To bring back jobs we need to lower the pay rate that companies are willing to pay here, and cutting the income tax for the poor would do that. Either way when income tax is cut the rich benefit, so it might as well be cut for the poor.

jw360 of NV 1:01AM September 11, 2008

Sam Dealey makes a good point regarding Obama's taxation morphing. But the first reader comment--jeepers, I just hope the third one is a lot better than that.

Jay Williams of MA 3:20PM September 09, 2008