jrc: That’s not a very good plan.

Then tax the living hell out of everybody who works for a living, just to pay for basic services. (at an equal rate of course; I think this is in Flat Tax, Fair Tax, too.)

It’ll make Haiti look like an economic dream.

My idea: Make all savings account interest tax free. Make all interest on dividends tax free. Make all capital gains on retirement plans tax free.

Make all pension contributions tax free.

Make all pensions tax free.

Inform Alan Greenspan that if he ever mentions the words “inflation”, “recession”, “depression”, “prime rate” or “downturn” again, he will be stripped naked and tied down on an anthill of fire ants, slathered with honey.

It will make the “dot com” boom look like the Great Depression.

What else is new?

And then some!

And yes war is h*ll (have never said otherwise), but the whole point is not all wars are the same (bunions are bad, but not as bad as cancer).

b) Upper class WHAT?

c) Oliver was being hyperbolic. Maybe it hasn’t literally been hell but it’s not been fun growing up in the oughties. It’s been disturbingly reminiscent of the Eighties in many respects.

d) The comparison of war to healthcare is the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever typed, this month maybe. If you’re selling perspective it’s a broken, damaged, almost unusable set you got off the back of a lorry marked “Smoke Damaged” and are now selling from a suitcase.

e) A brain, get one.

Yes, the new millennium is just a bed of roses.

Tell you what. You affirm to me OW is chock full of high grade CaCa for saying the new Millenium is hell and I won’t bore with you hard facts about wars and inflation and unemployment. BTW, cancer is worse than bunions and we should put more money into cancer research than bunion research? Insulted? Upper class highly moral panties in a wad, bunky? Because that judgement was based on the fact that more die of cancer. I guess you would fund each equally. Because it would icky to count the dead from each, right?

Perspective. Get it here today!

And you don’t need to tell me about the Somme. I had a great grandfather there. I have his medals. He’d have told you what war is, “son”.

Basic humanity. Get some.

Perspective! Get some!

And

“The new millennium has been hell”

Get a grip OW. No real war. No significant inflation or depression. Longer life span. Higher standard of living. Where you gonna hide if things ever do go bad. We had inflation/unemployment at 22% just 30 year ago. The Vietnam war was about 20 times more deadly than Iraq. And Korea and WWII were even worse.

Perspective, get some!

And it’s not like creating ownership for people is anything new. Jack Kemp went all out for something similar when he was Secretary of HUD under President GHWB. Of course, it was those ‘progressive’ Democrats controlling Congress that allocated a meager $150 million out of a budget of $24 billion for his plan as most of them said it was ‘unrealistic.’ I don’t see how people who have no interest in progress can call themselves progressives.

Seems to me that our economy is chugging along just fine.