Musings

How will what you believe bring about the kind of world you want to live in? 

Can you tell me exactly how bombing Iran will make the world a safer place?

Can you tell me exactly how reducing taxes on the wealthy will trickle down to the middle class and poor?

How exactly will having every American own a gun create less violence?

What does it say about American pay scales when over half of public school students qualify for subsidized lunches?

Where is that trickle down when America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past 6 years?

Who exactly are we going to hire when the US ranks near the bottom of the developed world in early childhood education?

Good Samaritans get tickets for feeding the homeless in San Antonio.

Rand Paul admitted he would have to raise the retirement age for Social Security and reduce Medicare Benefits in order to pay for the Bush tax cuts. No mention of cutting back on military spending.

Social Security can be saved easily by raising the ceiling on income that is taxed. Right now it is at $110,000…raising it would mean more of us would be taxed equally. As it stands now those making $110,000 and under bear more of the tax burden.

i saw this written up on Slate and i wonder how many think it is true?

“When Republican leaders are presented with a conflict between a Democratic president and a foreign government, they often side with the foreign government.” William Saletan

Did you know that 23% of military veterans that were discharged received a less than honorable discharge.http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/the-veterans-no-one-talks-about-20140914

Five percent of doctors accounted for 54% of malpractice payouts.http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/opinion/bad-doctors-get-a-free-ride.html

Estate tax is a big deal for conservatives and they want to vote on it tomorrow…but it looks like only 5,400 estates actually face the tax over the next several years even though 2 million deaths occur annually. “I guess when it comes to helping the wealthiest people in the country, it’s never enough,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said Tuesday with a laugh. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/238862-both-parties-fired-up-over-vote-on-estate-tax-repeal

If your estate is less than $5.43 million for an individual and $10.86 million for a couple you are already exempt.

Giving tax breaks for child care and education would help far more people than the GOP’s estate tax repeal.

Some say the left justifies taking money from those who earned it and then they turn around and give it to those who haven’t earned it. But here is a question…when you leave a huge multi-million dollar estate to your heirs why is it OK that they also haven’t earned it? Isn’t your good intentions undermining personal responsibility? Why is it that people who are GIVEN millions and millions shouldn’t have to pay taxes?

See ya next week.