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Burger said:
Might as well never use a smart phone or Amazon ever again. Reagan Tax Cuts were a huge part in the cause of the new tech industry.
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It's a question of balance. My own thinking is that the reason people are still not feeling THAT great about things is that the expansion is not truly benefitting the middle class like we need it to in order to spur consumer demand at the levels we need to see sustained improvement.
 
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Burger said:
Death rates are hardly an indictment on a medical system. They are an indictment of culture. Americans simply eat more cheeseburgers and gorge on excess junk.
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It's actually a combination of both.

My family misses Tennessee dearly. Groceries here in Mississippi are significantly more expensive, especially produce. It ends up cheaper to drive to Slidell in Louisiana and stock up at the Kroger there than to load up on fruits and veggies at stores in the Hattiesburg area.

The economic boom hasn't hit everywhere either. You could blindfold yourself and throw a rock in any direction here and hit a Dollar General or Family Dollar, neither of which carry much in the way of healthy eating. Yet, for many here, that's the primary grocery location because of affordability.

Working more hours to pay for what used to be employee benefits (insurance, pension) also leaves many workers with little time to cook. There's a marked correlation between health outcomes and cooking at home. Expensive ingredients plus no time to cook and eat at home combine for a negative statistical effect for mid and low income Americans.

Then there's the medical side of things. In Knoxville, my outcome for septicemia was positive because of the team of doctors working my case. Sure I lost a leg, but there were five infectious Disease specialists at UT working on solving the bug that almost killed me.

Hattiesburg has a regional medical center. Big hospital. They just hired a second infectious diseases doctor. He's the second in the entire city, across two major hospitals. My last infection a couple months ago had to be sent out of state to diagnose because of lack of equipment and manpower to study it in a timely manner. I was close to losing my left leg. I am now looking for jobs at universities near major medical centers and praying one comes open so that I don't have to worry about smaller outfits putting my life at risk.

Then there's prenatal care. Here's where the lie of pro-life gets me. We have some of the worst infant mortality rates in the developed world in part because prenatal care is exorbitantly expensive and we punish pregnant women when they do go to the doctor by not paying them (unless they're salaried). I'm not on the single payer bandwagon, but if we're serious about being pro-life then we wouldn't be making getting quality care during pregnancy an expensive and financially punitive event.
 
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lawgator1 said:
It's a question of balance. My own thinking is that the reason people are still not feeling THAT great about things is that the expansion is not truly benefitting the middle class like we need it to in order to spur consumer demand at the levels we need to see sustained improvement.
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Even more fair. Well, if uninterrupted, you will get that. The Gooberment ( Both Sides ) tend to have a problem with legislating things they seemingly have no clue about.
 
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#630
Burger said:
Might as well never use a smart phone or Amazon ever again. Reagan Tax Cuts were a huge part in the cause of the new tech industry.
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China was already kicking our ass in technology and Reagan's tax cuts had nothing to do with advancements.
 
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Mick said:
China was already kicking our ass in technology and Reagan's tax cuts had nothing to do with advancements.
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Reagan's cuts reduced enough of the tax burden on businesses in the 80's that they were booming in the 90's. The bigger thing he did was taking away emphasis on the Federal Worker and putting it into Entrepreneurship.
 
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AshG said:
It's actually a combination of both.

My family misses Tennessee dearly. Groceries here in Mississippi are significantly more expensive, especially produce. It ends up cheaper to drive to Slidell in Louisiana and stock up at the Kroger there than to load up on fruits and veggies at stores in the Hattiesburg area.

The economic boom hasn't hit everywhere either. You could blindfold yourself and throw a rock in any direction here and hit a Dollar General or Family Dollar, neither of which carry much in the way of healthy eating. Yet, for many here, that's the primary grocery location because of affordability.

Working more hours to pay for what used to be employee benefits (insurance, pension) also leaves many workers with little time to cook. There's a marked correlation between health outcomes and cooking at home. Expensive ingredients plus no time to cook and eat at home combine for a negative statistical effect for mid and low income Americans.

Then there's the medical side of things. In Knoxville, my outcome for septicemia was positive because of the team of doctors working my case. Sure I lost a leg, but there were five infectious Disease specialists at UT working on solving the bug that almost killed me.

Hattiesburg has a regional medical center. Big hospital. They just hired a second infectious diseases doctor. He's the second in the entire city, across two major hospitals. My last infection a couple months ago had to be sent out of state to diagnose because of lack of equipment and manpower to study it in a timely manner. I was close to losing my left leg. I am now looking for jobs at universities near major medical centers and praying one comes open so that I don't have to worry about smaller outfits putting my life at risk.

Then there's prenatal care. Here's where the lie of pro-life gets me. We have some of the worst infant mortality rates in the developed world in part because prenatal care is exorbitantly expensive and we punish pregnant women when they do go to the doctor by not paying them (unless they're salaried). I'm not on the single payer bandwagon, but if we're serious about being pro-life then we wouldn't be making getting quality care during pregnancy an expensive and financially punitive event.
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I can't truly rebuke that. It comes down to a state vs. state thing. I live in Minnesota, and we have pretty solid hospitals. No Farmers Market? That's what I do. Fairly inexpensive.
 
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Burger said:
I can't truly rebuke that. It comes down to a state vs. state thing. I live in Minnesota, and we have pretty solid hospitals. No Farmers Market? That's what I do. Fairly inexpensive.
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We were Farmer's market addicts when we lived in Tennessee. I spent part of my youth on a farm and got used to fresh veggies. There's a token monthly market downtown, but it's small, niche, and expensive. We bring coolers with us when we visit family back home.
 
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Burger said:
Reagan's cuts reduced enough of the tax burden on businesses in the 80's that they were booming in the 90's. The bigger thing he did was taking away emphasis on the Federal Worker and putting it into Entrepreneurship.
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Don't forget he established himself as the Father of Deficit Spending.
 
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AshG said:
We were Farmer's market addicts when we lived in Tennessee. I spent part of my youth on a farm and got used to fresh veggies. There's a token monthly market downtown, but it's small, niche, and expensive. We bring coolers with us when we visit family back home.
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I absolutely don't blame ya. I would definitely do the same. I have had the luxury of living in areas where Farmer's Markets were a weekend thing.
 
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TN Ribs said:
And remember that Trump said the tax cuts would pay for themselves with increased revenue. February set a record for the highest deficit in any month ever and the overall deficit is up 39% vs. the previous year for the first five months of the budget year. Republicans always fall for the trickle-down nonsense. It was a big, sloppy wet kiss to the donor class - rewarding wealth over work and spending other people's money is the GOP way.
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You are aware that deficits are caused by spending more than you take in, right?
 
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Mick said:
There are three ways to correct it: Spend less, take in more, or a combination of both.

Trump is doing none of the above.
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I read a couple of months ago that we were taken in record revenues. Is that wrong?? I don't know the answer for every month, nut I read that fairly recently. There is no way to spend substantially less, unless they hit S.S., Medicare and defense.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I read a couple of months ago that we were taken in record revenues. Is that wrong?? I don't know the answer for every month, nut I read that fairly recently. There is no way to spend substantially less, unless they hit S.S., Medicare and defense.
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Put a headcount freeze on the current Federal government workforce. I believe we could cut heads by 25% with no noticeable effect on output.
 
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DC_Vol said:
Put a headcount freeze on the current Federal government workforce. I believe we could cut heads by 25% with no noticeable effect on output.
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Well, when the government shutdown for how many days, I never noticed a thing. The problem with the government is they can't just fire crappy employees so they have twice as many to make up for the lousy ones.
 
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AshG said:
Then there's prenatal care. Here's where the lie of pro-life gets me. We have some of the worst infant mortality rates in the developed world in part because prenatal care is exorbitantly expensive and we punish pregnant women when they do go to the doctor by not paying them (unless they're salaried). I'm not on the single payer bandwagon, but if we're serious about being pro-life then we wouldn't be making getting quality care during pregnancy an expensive and financially punitive event.
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Who is this "we" you speak of, Lone Ranger? You somehow think pro lifers are setting the cost of medical care?
 
#649
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Burger said:
Reagan's cuts reduced enough of the tax burden on businesses in the 80's that they were booming in the 90's. The bigger thing he did was taking away emphasis on the Federal Worker and putting it into Entrepreneurship.
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GHW Bush had to raise taxes because of the Reagan tax cuts. “Read my lips”
 
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