Why did we need the Energy Department to create it. That could have been done by executive order and existing resources.

I do remember what CBO and the White House and I blogged at the time that they were going to get a pleasant surprise in a few years. I also roundly criticized them for a staggered approach to implementing tax relief, instead of going “all in.” People push economic activity outward so that they earn money during the time of lowest taxes. That’s why it took so long for Reagan’s tax cuts to spur growth. People waited until after the last phase was implemented to put their money to work so they could get the most for it. For the acutal results, you are referred to your own table in post 26. After the tax cuts were accelerated to an “all in” configuration, revenue to the government exploded.

“Crap” Anon is defending higher taxes, higher spending (because if you let them have it they will spend it) as something that works. Allowing the government to have more money and more power (they go together) is always ruinous. That’s why between 1980 and 2008, the United States created 70 million jobs. Europe created 4 million. They tax their people into poverty, spend their way into ruin and have left their children the burnt out hulk of an economy to live with. Most European nations employ confiscatory taxes, pay little or nothing for their own defense and many are going bankrupt due to excessive social spending and antiquated progressive tax policies.

Now no one can be happy with the increases in the debt, and its only going to get worse as long as we retain this antiquated and inadequate tax system.

America needs a tax system that unshackles its people, fires up its growth and that can provide the revenue streams to keep our promises to our people and reduce our debt.

The system we have is not it.

Being the liberal-progressive-socialitst that you are, you really have no right to call anyone “ignorant” while you advocate ruinous ideas that have destroyed Europe’s once prosperous society.

I do vote and through my writings and other efforts encourage many others to vote…the right way… Just wait until November. I am sad only that your vote has the same value as mine. No matter. I’ll get ten other people there.

I notice you have no defense for spending federal dollars to study their mating habits. How many Americans are killed by them in the United States? If the answer is what I think it is, you have just proved my point.

You do understand the Bush tax cuts were passed with both White House and CBO saying tax cuts would CUT (reduce) revenue by an estimated $1.5 trillion over ten years? Recall in 2001, just as we started to pay down national debt with an emerging surplus, a fiscal policy was put in place that said, instead of paying down debt, the money would be returned to taxpayers? That was followed by a flood of $600 “rebate” checks? Then huge rate cuts. Then you notice national debt almost doubles. What is the argument here?

During Reagan national debt increased a whopping 189%. HWBush racked up 55% more. Clinton 36% more. GWBush 89% more. GW holds the record dollar amount adding around $6 Trillion in national debt.

Is there some reason you want to defend this crap? Want more of the same. You don’t cut revenue unless you cut spending. You don’t spend unless there is tax revenue to pay for it.

I see you think tse-tse is a funny foreign sounding word and must therefore be something frivolous. Is there no end to your ignorance? It would be comical, except that you probably vote.

Tsetse flies spread trypanosomiasis which is fatal and killed fifty thousand people last year. One of the promising techniques for controlling the flies is the release of irradiated males. This technique was developed according to research into the mating habits of the flies:

Studies of the tsetse fly show that females generally only mate once in their lifetimes and very rarely mate a second time. Once a female fly has mated, she can then produce continual offspring throughout her short life.

Using this information, the International Atomic Energy Agency has developed a process of irradiating male Tsetse flies that have been specially bred. This process of irradiation sterilizes the male. These sterilized male flies are then released into areas where sleeping sickness is prevalent, and then mate with the females. Because the male is sterile, and the females mate only once, the population of Tsetse flies in the affected area will drop. Studies have shown that this process has been very effective in preventing sleeping sickness in people who live in the area.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique#Sterile_fly_for_African_trypanosomiasis

The sterile insect technique has been used to reduce tsetse populations. This technique involves the rearing of large numbers of tsetse, separation of the males, irradiation of these flies with large doses of gamma rays to make them sterile and then release into to the wild. Since females only mate a few times in their life, generally only once, any mating with a sterile male prevents that female from giving birth to any offspring.

The sterile insect technique has recently been used on Zanzibar, an island off the coast of East Africa. Like other eradication efforts, early indications are that the fly numbers have been decimated, with the fly possibly extirpated (locally eradicated) from the island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsetse_fly#Releases_of_irradiated_males

Cut spending? Absolutely. Close the Departments of Energy, Agriculture and Education. They are useless failures. Reduce the EPA to a research agency modeled on NASA, not an enforcement agency modeled on the IRS. And speaking of the IRS, when the FairTax is enacted, we’ll be rid of that too. Should we cut the F-35? If the generals say so, yes. End the Nanny Entitlement State, leaving the safety net in place. Any research projects funded by the federal government must meet strict national needs requirements. No more funding studies of the mating habits of tse-tse flies. The list of things we can cut spending on is endless.

I agree with you about cutting spending. That is what I am complaining about. Cut spending first. Pay down the debt first. And then when everything is wonderful cut taxes.

The facts are we did things the half assed way. Cut taxes first, forgot to cut spending adding $6 Trillion in debt in the last ten years. $13 trillion in 30 years. And the excuse has always been the same blah blah blah lower taxes will boost this and that and geez the problem is spending but I just can’t figure out were to cut $1.6 trillion and look here at the Laffer curve and this crystal ball.

Here’s a flashback to 2001

http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N37/Balkans_37.37w.html

Home equity backed up by fraudulent securities. Brought to you by Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, assisted by Barack Obama.

Unfortunately it turned out to be a quick sugar buzz.