Daily Topics - Thursday April 12th, 2012
By shawnt56
Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE at our new time, 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour Two: "Taxmageddon," the latest conservative scary tale? Curtis Dubay, Heritage Foundation / Plus, Geeky Science - what you need to know about dental x-rays
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#2
TOO MUCH CAPITAL?
Really the question to ask these all-taxes-bad people is, "is it possible to have too much capital"?
This is the situation that leads to bubbles, and huge income inequity, and bubbles. There are valid times to decrease taxes, and times to increase taxes. When there is insuficient money to spur needed investment, then taxes need to be lower, when wealth is being put into potential bubbles, not working towards real growth, then taxes are too low.
Robert in Denver
#3
Spagnicolously ugly?
Totally stumped.
#4
My thoughts about Socialism, (and one on Fascism) today:
The word Social evokes pleasant feelings for me. I think Ice Cream Social sums it up. People enjoying each others company while eating Ice Cream. If Fox News covered the event they would no doubt report it as being a gathering of the American Socialist Party.
If being a Socialist means you care about others, share with each other and be fair with each other , thats what I learned from my parents and at Kiindergarten by the time I was 4 or 5. It was a good way to live then and it's still a good way to live today.
If Corporations are now people (persons) it's impossible for Fascism to ever exist in America even though Fascism is exactly what Corprate People have been, are creating. 60 years ago America traveled half way around the world to fight in a war to stop Fascism.
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I'd be happy to call Republicans fascists. Fascism is all about giving businesses (and their rich owners) more rights than individual humans, so it's perfectly accurate.