Quote:I didn't say abolish the military, I said if you think there's more cutting to be done there's a lot of pork in that piece of the pie.

 

Disasters are going to happen, they've been happening. The key is to stop the insanity of believing that income tax rates have to be historically low in order for the economy to function.

 

Tax rates can be historically high and the economy succeed as long as the rest of the free world is in rubble. The 50s proved that. But when you have global competition and numerous first-world economies to compete against then it's a totally different story to attract and retain core industries. But Americans like their cheap [BLEEP] from Wal-Mart, to the point that no one here will make the money to afford anything else.

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