Also, I don’t care what your ’study’ says (it says what those who paid for it wanted it to say), a dollar spent in the private sector has more ‘bang’ in the economy than a dollar spent in the public sector. The private sector seeks to maximize efficiencies whereas the public sector’s decisions are effected by all sorts of ‘noise’ that interferes with its ability to make the best decisions monetarily. – for example, government pushed lenders to make loans to lower income (often uncreditworthly) borrowers for socially desirable outcomes, that turned out to be financially foolish and harmful, most especially harmful to those they purported to help.

read it yourself.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/01/13/progressive-investment/

but don’t let facts get in the way of your ideology. I work for a major corporation, with defense contracts, and I’m more than pleased to have republican loyalists vote to benefit me and not themselves.
I hope the conservatives never wake up.

“The key thing to understand is that not all tax cuts are created equal. If policy makers want to boost growth, they need to reduce marginal tax rates on productive behavior such as work…”

I could not agree more.

A straight line above board $50 or so million dollar raise to every executive in Detroit asking for it in whatever form.

A straight line $500 million dollar performance increase for all former Goldman-Sachs employees currently employed by the Federal Government.

Similar performance based multi-million dollar pay increases following the US Military E-5’s and below ranks for successfully expelling any obvious deviant who is obviously deviant for earning under $50,000 annually.

Well, except for anyone qualifying under paragraph 3, line 3 any of the above exempted shall retroactively be exempted from immediate deportation. All of those not qualifying under the exemptions granted retroactively under the provisions subject to the lines above the enumerated provisions therunder shall follow on to the boats in order to enforce said provisions.

Any objecting individual(s) must Swear on Oath that:

1. That individual has received Pre-Obama bailout funds (and is not a former Goldman Sachs employee) or

2. That individual Swears on Oath that he or she abandoned all the principals he or she previously Swore to Uphold.

Provisions under Article 2 include but are not limited to: being a director, board member, oil-company executive whose company holds it’s major cash reserves outside the jurisdictional boundaries of the US – any elected official – and/or anyone not earning in excess of $50,000 annually who agrees to pass bottled water on the deportation boats and/or does not plan to return to the immediate environs of Crawford Texas. (For the purposes of this law – all former owners of Professional Baseball Teams are not, nor shall be held subject to any of the obove Provisions.)

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/business-not-government-will-drive-away.html

..oh, so now it’s cool with Mrs Obambi that her husband is having the feds treat taxpayers to another set of earrings.

What was it that Martin Sheen said in Apocalypse Now? “Oh man! The bullsh*t piled up around here so fast you needed wings to stay above it!”

What makes it ridiculous? You’re magically going to start arguing for tax increases after the recession is over? No, you aren’t, and when the next recession comes along you’re just going to bring up the same points on needing to lower taxes.

Tax policy should not be looked at in terms of economic stimulus. In fact, doing so is a hell of a lot more Keynesian than you think.