Lessons in Social Security scaremongering
10-03-2009, 08:43 AM
#81
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Originally Posted by jungle
It must be nice to have an outlook that includes such lax standards of accounting. No worries.
Pray tell sir, where does government get it's money?
Pray tell sir, where does government get it's money?
Taxes, issuing bonds, tariffs, excises, fees, auctions, probably a million other things that I don't know about.
10-03-2009, 08:51 AM
#82
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Originally Posted by ppilot
Not really sure what 'lax standards of accounting' you're talking about.
Taxes, issuing bonds, tariffs, excises, fees, auctions, probably a million other things that I don't know about.
Taxes, issuing bonds, tariffs, excises, fees, auctions, probably a million other things that I don't know about.
Main Entry: tax
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: charge levied by government on property, income
Synonyms: assessment, bite*, brokerage, capitation, contribution, cost, custom, dues, duty, excise, expense, fine, giveaway, imposition, impost, levy, obligation, pork barrel, price, rate, salvage, tariff, tithe, toll, towage, tribute
10-03-2009, 09:18 AM
#83
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Originally Posted by jungle
The word "Tax" has many synonyms.
Main Entry: tax
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: charge levied by government on property, income
Synonyms: assessment, bite*, brokerage, capitation, contribution, cost, custom, dues, duty, excise, expense, fine, giveaway, imposition, impost, levy, obligation, pork barrel, price, rate, salvage, tariff, tithe, toll, towage, tribute
Main Entry: tax
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: charge levied by government on property, income
Synonyms: assessment, bite*, brokerage, capitation, contribution, cost, custom, dues, duty, excise, expense, fine, giveaway, imposition, impost, levy, obligation, pork barrel, price, rate, salvage, tariff, tithe, toll, towage, tribute
10-03-2009, 09:27 AM
#84
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Originally Posted by ppilot
Thanks for the thesaurus entry and the grammar lesson. Are you really saying that the government gets all of its money from taxes? Do you really think issuing a bond is a tax? And why am I arguing about this with you? It's stupid and I have better things to do.
10-03-2009, 04:53 PM
#85
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Originally Posted by ppilot
Thanks for the thesaurus entry and the grammar lesson. Are you really saying that the government gets all of its money from taxes? Do you really think issuing a bond is a tax? And why am I arguing about this with you? It's stupid and I have better things to do.
Where does the government get the money to pay the bondholders? Its secrect grove of money trees? In my town, for some crazy reason, when the town issues bonds our TAXES go up until the bonds are retired. What's up with that?
10-04-2009, 04:08 AM
#86
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On bonds, debts, and the like
I don't expect to resolve this issue so I'll keep this short.
The best way to run any collective enterprise is to buy only what you can afford. Washington has been unable/unwilling to do this now to the tune of 14 decimal places. We, collectively, re-elect most of these people.
Bonds are the way to import tomorrow's wealth to be wasted today.
"Unfunded liabilities" are only different from deficit spending in that the bonds have to be issued now. In that sense they make it harder for budgeteers to waste the money on something else.
WW
The best way to run any collective enterprise is to buy only what you can afford. Washington has been unable/unwilling to do this now to the tune of 14 decimal places. We, collectively, re-elect most of these people.
Bonds are the way to import tomorrow's wealth to be wasted today.
"Unfunded liabilities" are only different from deficit spending in that the bonds have to be issued now. In that sense they make it harder for budgeteers to waste the money on something else.
WW
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