Daily Topics - Tuesday December 13th, 2011
By shawnt56
Hour One: Surprise...guess who supports Newt's tax plan? Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal
Hour Two: Newt Gingrich proposed the death penalty... for pot? Former Gov. Gary Johnson (R-NM)
Hour Three: Thom challenges Libertarian Wayne Root - "I Am the 1%"
Comments
#2
Low capital(ist)-gains tax allowed Wayne Root to save money?
How did he get the money to invest? That had to be savings, because he had to do without it for some time. And he didn't have to spend time to gain the products of those investments, so it's extra on top of whatever amount he actually worked for.
I have no sympathy for the size of his mortgage. He chose a mansion over a more humble home.
#3
Retrarcely ugly? It may involve the prefix "retro-", but other than that, I can't figure it out.
Maybe the second part is "arse" and it means "ass-backward". :D
#4
Oooops! I meant Thom not Tom.
#5
Oh, no! The pigeons from Xenu have infiltrated the Live Blog! ;)
#6
Nan Noo, Nan Noo!
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
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Tom, The next time some libertarian on your show says that they made their money by themselves: just say; No You Didn't!!
It is virtually impossible for anyone to make all their money themselves. They didn't make their own roads, postal system or the products that they use, buy or sell. They didn't make their own army, police force and so on, all the things that make commerce possible.
Other people are always involved with someone making money. In fact, money would be worthless if other people didn't accept that money.
Tom makes these point all the time but whenever one of these libertarians say they ""made their money by themselves", they are lying. It is impossible! And they should be told. NO YOU DIDN'T!!