Comments on: Needed: A National Conference On Economic Reform

by: Tom Walsh

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:24:33 +0000

A good, progressive tax structure will reduce the incentive to make as much as you can personally, making it more likely funds will stay in businesses to fund higher employment. Extra-high rates on extra high incomes (50% on any earnings in excess of 1,000,000 and 75% on any earnings in excess of 10,000,000) will assure that those who benefitted the most from our economic system will share the fruits of that success withn the masses who helped make such earnings possible.
When I studied taxes in the 1970s the top tax rate was 70%. I understand the top rate was 90% prior to that. As I recall, we seemed to do all right under those circumstances. That precedent didn’t seem to make the econpmy grind to a halt. Back then, when we shared the wealth, things were actually pretty good for the middle class.
A progressive tax system is an inherently logical tax system and the only truly fair system to have (that includes progressive taxes on investment and inherited income as well).

by: Allene E. Swienckowski

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:30:05 +0000

Most people think that it’s ompossible for change to happen in Washington, therefore many people think that Obama won’t be able to change the downward spiral of the US. But of course change can, effective change can occur. We have all experienced the overwhelming negative change that has happened in this country over the past seven years. If people decide that they want to make changes, the right people that is, then change will be made. It all begins with a simple thought: things have to be different if we’re all going to survive.

by: Cord;ey Coit

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:26:44 +0000

The so-called progressive media turned on many of us who wrote about economics because we were the wrong sex or color in the PC Wars more of us got canned over immigration issues like illegals being used as scabs and slaves or pointing out that outsourcing jobs to India while insourcing workers from Latin America might be bad economics.
Liberals toe the Party line almost as well as conservatives. A lot of the us squeaky wheels got canned for being honest or worse humorus about the neo liberal trans-nationals that looted and are still looting ,hyena like, the carcass of American Industry and Labor.