ReasonTV Stimulus Plan

[JJ9715]

Hey Nick Gillespie, nice leather jacket! 

[whitesox889]

Thomas Sowell's Housing Boom and Bust is a great book regarding the crash.

Nick took the hole digging idea from Milton Friedman.

[AmericaTheREAL]

Nick Gillespie is a Big Business Bitch.

Libertarians suck !

[sixletter]

'Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.'

-Ronald Reagan

[WGIF44]

Business people know how to invest their money? Then why is the economy f'ed?

[mipoleon]

Because the government has been for years pushing banks to make these high risk loans.

[Wormtail81]

Show us a viable alternative. And please don't say, "Socialism."

[zxcvbnmjhgfdsa1]

@Wormtail81 well theres lack of alternatives because someone must have benefit and responsibiity. Government is socialism, private enterprise capitalism and coops never save a cent. Government could charge the actual cost of insuring financial institutions and give money to states so they wouldint fire the same time feds hire. Thats why stimulus didnt work!

[learninglemur]

One of the best general articles that accurately explains the economic crisis in essential terms is: "The Crisis in 10 Points" by Robert Stewart.

[MooseOfReason]

@WGIF44 Perverse government incentives, overregulation, and an expansionary monetary policy.

Yes, Paul Krugman is wrong, and you should admit it.

[TheProgressistViewer]

Because the banks were forced by the government to give loans to people who could not afford it. The banking system and the housing markets were literally sabotaged by the government.

[CalifSunshine2008]

IMPEACH OBAMA!

[pgibson78]

I totally Agree with you! I am getting so tired of Government thinking they are smarter than any tax payer. Do they realize that we are their boss? If they gave every business a refund of what they paid in taxes the past 3 years. I think a business can be stay going. And another Idea. Give back people who actually paid taxes a refund also. If I got a refund back for my taxes. I would buy a new mattress so I could sleep without back pain. And some house furniture. Others may buy a house or a car

[zxcvbnmjhgfdsa1]

@pgibson78 Unfortunatly people decide to save money when the government wants spending. In the long term its smart to save in short term you want to spend. There is an alternative, put money into health care so people are healthier and businesses dont go broke over medical costs.

[cookeladoo]

Hole digging may well pay of, someone may struck gold, or maybe oil or who knows maybe even a hidden pirate treasure.....Damn, get me a spade and an application form.

[couchpotatoe387]

Woot on the second choice!

[Isawanangel1X]

i agree, too bad it won't go down that way

[voltvoltvolt1234]

jp, The poor have families too. And no, I disbelieve in taking money from any social class and giving it to another, for any reason.

[CommonSense0822]

Obama told 'Joe the Plumber' that he wants to get rid of the capital gains tax. We shall see if he does get rid of it.

[MooseOfReason]

Common, Obama said people who make under $250,000 wouldn't have to pay capital gains.

[bittergunowner12]

He won't.

[jp3711nc1]

Democrats think they can spend it better than you where they think your spending ways are careless and stupid. Maybe they can ask us where they going to spend it on another pay raise or A tea pot museum or another project leads to no where.

[aallppiinnee]

Barry thinks the backbone of our economy is laying asphalt and patching concrete.

[knightofroses]

I will take option two, please.

[LastTrueLiberal]

FUCK the income tax! FUCK the capital gains tax! FUCK the inflation tax! These taxes are currently raping our economy. The last one is going to get particularly bad over the next few years. Hang onto your seats and prepare for a decade long descension into statism and economic stagnation.

[AKlover]

Cut taxes specifically those related to investment and massively cut spending and stop printing more money to run inflation higher.

[xelenty]

I'm not why people feel that giving money back that was stolen from them is a difficult solution?

Are you all masochists?

[voyeurdug]

Wonderfully simplistic solution to a complex problem. Fail.

[Moragauth]

Indeed, though guess who advocates these "solutions"...

[stick1to2the3issue]

Unless I am missing the sarcasm, I find your comment highly objectionable. Libertarianism is about freedom. There is no freedom in Anarchy, only a bunch of angry individuals or mobs going around using force on other groups or individuals without anyone stopping them.

[Moragauth]

Do you even know what you're talking about?

[stick1to2the3issue]

hmm...yes.

[Licmycat]

SHOW ME THE MONEY!

[littlebier8]

Oo! Oo! No, wait! Here's an even better idea than digging holes and filling them in! Get this: we pay people to go around and break stuff! You know, smash windows, steal things, loot, so forth. That way people will be forced to buy a bunch of new stuff, thus stimulating production and saving the economy!

I could get a job working for the President's Working Group!

[cheesechoker]

We have this already, it's called "war".

[littlebier8]

Yeah, I know, and it's a lot easier to get excited about!

[st4nd4u]

they've been lobbying to pass the hole digging law since 72! but the shovel companies are threatening to hike costs and cheapen products. Research "The Last Dirt Hope" some people say im a conspiracy theorist... i just say fuck holes!

[DeraJa]

your second idea sounded pretty crazy. I am hoping for the hole idea.

[MooseOfReason]

I agree with tax cuts, but we also need to cut spending.

Just cutting taxes won't solve the problem.

[Mrydberg87]

Very good idea, thats more like the reason magazine that I love. The last video made me worry

[voxman77]

Liberals are by definition, total and complete failures. Tens of thousands of dollars spent on Ivy League educations, only to emerge as brainwashed scientologists who champion failed systems....doesn't make much sense at all does it?

[jp3711nc1]

liberals hate tax cuts that idea will just go one ear out the other another tax cuts are only for the rich to them 250,000 is rich family of 4 i may ad.

[wwwdotLPdotorg]

Don't forget liberals don't like to give their tax cuts back.

[jp3711nc1]

His tax cuts if you can that is a wealth fare check remember 250,000 is rich and he planes to take money from them. When they have families to and giving it to people who don't pay or pay little taxes at all.

[bittergunowner12]

And how do we know that he won't tax people who make less the 250k a yr.

[Elasaltaculos]

they are inflating the money supply to the point that someday 250k will not be worth much.

What then?

[bittergunowner12]

Then everyone gets taxed, and I highly doubt Obama will tax people making over 250k a yr.