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<blockquote data-quote="Proximity" data-source="post: 7928230" data-attributes="member: 589997">Um, check out the James Bond Fanatic.As for permanent growth, no, the government couldn&#039;t keep up forever. But at some point, had the war never happened, the employment would pick up to the point where the government could ease off on it&#039;s spending and the private sector would pick up the &quot;slack&quot; left by the government. It is exactly what happened during WWII, except at a much more rapid pace because of the enormous demand the government created for goods of war. Do we agree on that?And, as ****** as it sounds, we lend ourselves money the majority of our dept. That&#039;s not to belittle or debt or make it seem unimportant, but it&#039;s secondary to reviving our economy. It&#039;s also the best deficit reducer, actually. Because a large part of our deficit is due to lower revenues because of the recession.I don&#039;t buy that comparison. American families don&#039;t govern 300 million people. If the government couldn&#039;t do anything a family couldn&#039;t do, we wouldn&#039;t be a nation.Oh, no! My argument is just that conservatives like to argue that lower taxes on the rich will be good for the economy and higher taxes on them will be bad. History clearly proves this wrong.However, I will say that they both (the &quot;both&quot; being higher taxes &amp;amp; stronger economy) fall back to use of liberal economics.And we&#039;ve talked about the progressive tax rate thing for so much and gotten nowhere, I won&#039;t start down that road again, but I will mention one thing. You talk about truths being in the center of two extremes. I agree completely. However, my views aren&#039;t extreme. (I am kind of a hot head, I base my opinions off of facts, but I won&#039;t deny that.) The Democrats and Republicans don&#039;t represent two extremes. Pure socialism and pure capitalism are the two extremes. The Republicans are a lot closer to being extremists, but the Democrats are in the center. They want a mix of socialism and capitalism, which is the way to succeed. Just something to think about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Proximity, post: 7928230, member: 589997"] Um, check out the James Bond Fanatic. As for permanent growth, no, the government couldn't keep up forever. But at some point, had the war never happened, the employment would pick up to the point where the government could ease off on it's spending and the private sector would pick up the "slack" left by the government. It is exactly what happened during WWII, except at a much more rapid pace because of the enormous demand the government created for goods of war. Do we agree on that? And, as ****** as it sounds, we lend ourselves money the majority of our dept. That's not to belittle or debt or make it seem unimportant, but it's secondary to reviving our economy. It's also the best deficit reducer, actually. Because a large part of our deficit is due to lower revenues because of the recession. I don't buy that comparison. American families don't govern 300 million people. If the government couldn't do anything a family couldn't do, we wouldn't be a nation. Oh, no! My argument is just that conservatives like to argue that lower taxes on the rich will be good for the economy and higher taxes on them will be bad. History clearly proves this wrong. However, I will say that they both (the "both" being higher taxes & stronger economy) fall back to use of liberal economics. And we've talked about the progressive tax rate thing for so much and gotten nowhere, I won't start down that road again, but I will mention one thing. You talk about truths being in the center of two extremes. I agree completely. However, my views aren't extreme. [SIZE=10px](I am kind of a hot head, I base my opinions off of facts, but I won't deny that.)[/SIZE] The Democrats and Republicans don't represent two extremes. Pure socialism and pure capitalism are the two extremes. The Republicans are a lot closer to being extremists, but the Democrats are in the center. They want a mix of socialism and capitalism, which is the way to succeed. Just something to think about. [/QUOTE]

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