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But then wouldn't they be unable to pay off medical school???

Whats your point, then? That everyone should buy houses straight cash? That everyone, everywhere should rent?

............ Because houses cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

People don't go to emergency rooms for fun, Marvin, they go because they don't have health insurance. How much does the Walmart doctor cost (the sheer idea is terrifying. Reminds me of the Pepsi School system...)

Hmmm... Well there's a thing. Lets see if it lasts a week... Also, super excited about the upcoming debates. Except its not a debate, its apparently going to be more like side by side interviews. I don't think there will be much interaction between Biden and Palin.

909, you are well aware that Americans have been using mortgages to buy houses for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time without fucking up the economy? That its practically impossible to buy a house, now, without a very very very long term loan with a whole shitload of collateral. The house. If we can't even get that, then no one can buy houses. I guess that would lower, drastically, the amount houses are worth. Which might sound good to you if you're looking to buy one. But no one's gonna sell a house to you for nothing while they're still paying off their mortgages.

Haha.

It's about the credit crunch NOT the market drops or gains. No duh.

Thank goodness its still my state too, Marvin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...id=sec-business

Do you own a home? Do you have a mortgage out?

Oh, but that comment was bound to happen.

Scanners head explode picture here

Still, it's not like the money which is spent on luxuries just vanishes from the economy, never to be seen again. That's the little grain of truth inside trickle-down economics; the money spent by the rich on anything goes back into the pool. What about those who sell the luxuries? Their companies have employees whose salaries need paying too. I agree that laying off a bunch of your workforce in order to pay for new marble floors and CEO bonuses is a horribly unethical thing, but you're acting like companies take their profits and bury them in the back yard so that they'll never see daylight again. *points to Haliburton moving their company HQ to DUBAI*

(no sarcasm) Really?

Claire needs a weapon. I dunno if its a gun or a blade or a a a hammer.. But she needs to get all mad and ass-kicky. This emo's gotta stop.

Even if what you say is true, and I'm not saying it is, it's still a better slogan than, "Be afraid. Be very afraid."

Well the markets open in four minutes. If today's a black Friday, here we go...

You argue against this point from the premise that every business wants to kick it into high gear to keep their head above water. The argument is that higher taxes will stint business growth because of less profit, and less economic growth because less businesses will want to start up because who would want to start one when the government takes a sizable portion of your earnings anyways? The reverse is true, though; lower tax rates would create an incentive for businesses to start up. Most available funds in a business go to purchasing more capital and making a business expand via hiring more employees or whatever, not "other people's wealth, or spent on luxuries." Those maybe account for a small, infantile percentage of funds spending. Even still, I really doubt that companies, and not individuals, spend their business funds on luxuries instead of capital. I understand the necessity for it, but don't inflate this luxury spending. Now, that we've established that lower taxes = greater profit margin, we can also establish that greater profit margin = more capital purchasing power, which, in turn, equals business growth. Then there's the trickle down theory. That lower taxes on the rich will give them more purchasing power in the economy, and lots of it, which will stimulate the economy down because they drive up demand with their large amounts of expendable salaries. If any of these ideas worked, do you think we'd be in the mess we're in right now? TRICKLE DOWN / REAGANOMICS DON'T WORK~!!!! Has our economy done better under Bush than it did under Clinton? Really!?

Yeah, "why" is not the question...

Yeah, thats the limitations of electric cars. There's NO middleground between the electric sportscar and the electric golfcart...

Please don't bring your mother issues up here, on top of everything else...

Booooo

At least the Dems tax their way into income instead of borrowing. I mean. Come on.

And?

Heaven forbid, a Republican who actually cares about the environment and the Iraq war. GET HIM OUT!!! Nuts to you, Marvin, his kind of support for the Bay may be the only way to ensure a financial future for those watermen who want to have a future there...