A short-term immediate plan for growth.

[JohnnySavage]

No they wouldn't. Cuba has tobacco and sugar. Why would we import it from them and add taxes to the price of something we can otherwise get cheaper?
And apparently you have never been to PR. Income tax from there would be next to nothing. Not to mention you apparently think the revenue from one small state would somehow fix the deficit.

Not to mention we have no legal authority to make PR a state.

Nor to mention that recently Congress voted to support PR self-determination.

And further, just cutting PR loose to be its own country would be cheaper.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

No they wouldn't. Cuba has tobacco and sugar. Why would we import it from them and add taxes to the price of something we can otherwise get cheaper?
And apparently you have never been to PR. Income tax from there would be next to nothing. Not to mention you apparently think the revenue from one small state would somehow fix the deficit.

Not fix, just reduce it. And they are growing these days, a lot more than they used to be.

The revenue would be more from wealthier folk who want a Havana and tourists who want to see America (probably those Party bigwigs with those special perks, at least at first). As for sugar, we are not as competitive there as we were before sugar quotas that have led to the widespread use of high-fructose corn syrup. Though we could be if we dropped the damn quotas.

 

[islandman]

Not to mention we have no legal authority to make PR a state.

Nor to mention that recently Congress voted to support PR self-determination.

And further, just cutting PR loose to be its own country would be cheaper.

You're a fun-blocker, you know that?

 

[KRCummings]

Not to mention we have no legal authority to make PR a state.

Nor to mention that recently Congress voted to support PR self-determination.

And further, just cutting PR loose to be its own country would be cheaper.

They've voted on statehood a few times and they don't want to join. Can't really blame them. They got a sweet deal right now.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Would you care to guess how many of the existing 50 States are currently running a budget deficit? Yet the 51st is expected to break even or run a surplus?

Drop a lot of mandates, and that would fall considerably.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

If they want independence, they can do that, too. We could cut a free-trade agreement with them. Just as we could with Alaska, if they broke away. Or Hawaii.

 

[JohnnySavage]

If they want independence, they can do that, too. We could cut a free-trade agreement with them. Just as we could with Alaska, if they broke away. Or Hawaii.

Jesus.

 

[islandman]

Drop a lot of mandates, and that would fall considerably.

Mandates like the Salt River Project and Central Arizona Projects that supply Phoenix with its water?

Okay, let's try that. What else?

 

[KRCummings]

If they want independence, they can do that, too. We could cut a free-trade agreement with them. Just as we could with Alaska, if they broke away. Or Hawaii.

Yeah, I don't think Alaska and Hawaii get to do that.

 

[islandman]

I'd still like an answer on my cap gains/small business question, please.

 

[KRCummings]

Jesus.

I think it just says whatever pops into it's head.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Yeah, I don't think Alaska and Hawaii get to do that.

But they're not hooked on. Just like PR.

 

[KRCummings]

But they're not hooked on. Just like PR.

You'd think Hawaii would just float away.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I'd still like an answer on my cap gains/small business question, please.

I did answer it. Investors, have you never heard of them?

 

[Sean]

*sigh*

Another moronic c+p by yet another right wing retard.

 

[islandman]

I did answer it. Investors, have you never heard of them?

You find that a lot of small businesses invest their excess cash in the stock market? Hell, you find that small businesses have a lot of excess cash with which to invest in the stock market?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Jesus.

Well, just an example, but states have the right to secede. Anything not banned in the Constitution for the states is allowed.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

You find that a lot of small businesses invest their excess cash in the stock market?

No, that people invest capital in some promising and enterprising businesses. Lower taxes would draw more investment.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Yeah, I don't think Alaska and Hawaii get to do that.

They do if they wish. It's perfectly Constitutional.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Obviously, I'm challenging some prejudicial assumptions of yours. Fine. You can continue to believe your ideological premises. But that doesn't make you right. I offered concrete solutions. If you think that you have better ideas, let's hear them.

I dare you.

 

[KRCummings]

Well, just an example, but states have the right to secede. Anything not banned in the Constitution for the states is allowed.

Well, that's enough for me. The rest of ya'll have fun. I've hit my quota for stupid today.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Well, that's enough for me. The rest of ya'll have fun. I've hit my quota for stupid today.

He needs to go to this thread, stat: http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=781225

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Well, that's enough for me. The rest of ya'll have fun. I've hit my quota for stupid today.

If by that you mean that you've been stupid enough for one day, I agree with you.

 

[islandman]

No, that people invest capital in some promising and enterprising businesses. Lower taxes would draw more investment.

Lower than the 5% currently being taxed on long-term capital gains?

Obviously, I'm challenging some prejudicial assumptions of yours. Fine. You can continue to believe your ideological premises. But that doesn't make you right. I offered concrete solutions. If you think that you have better ideas, let's hear them.

I dare you.

They weren't your ideas. At least be honest about that.

 

[cjh]

Well, just an example, but states have the right to secede. Anything not banned in the Constitution for the states is allowed.

are you sure that hasn't been tried before?