Quote Originally Posted by Ronin13 View Post
The other plan is to cut taxes across the board, while still keeping the top paying the same percentage of the taxes (60%), relaxing regulations to help promote job growth, and cut some spending and reform some programs. I'll let you decide which is which- but like "Dirty Harry" Eastwood said "Let's let a businessman try."
Gov. Romney's plan depends on tax cuts stimulating the economny sufficiently to make up for the tax revenue shortfall. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work. It hasn't in the past (see effects of 1986 Tax Act on 1987, or 1990-1991 recession and it isn't working in Ireland. Non-partisan economists continue to point this out, but the Romney campaign continues to use studies by partisan think tanks.

For example:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20...onomic-growth/

the author is a former advisor to Presidents Reagan and GHW Bush.

You want a good gauge on the economy, do what Rooskibar did, look internally at your own household.
Again, that's anecdotal, not data, and certainly not information. Since 2009, I've purchased two cars and a bunch of new hobby gear. We, as a country, narrowly avoided economic collapse after the financial crisis, so I expect things to be wacky. I don't blame either administration for that; it was a big frigging problem that is going to take time to get under control.


.I know I've seen an increase in most of the things I purchase over the last 4 years that is way out of control...
Can you define "way out of control"?


Gas going up the way it has is not on par for "normal."
Google "speculators".


Here's is a graph to show Denver vs USA Average for the last 8 yrs:
One of the basic tenets of economics is supply and demand, in that if supply exceeds demand, prices go down, and vice versa. However, the US is a net exporter of gasoline, meaning that the oil companies, who own the product, would prefer to sell gasoline refined in this country overseas, decreasing the available supply to US consumers. Should the government prevent that? Also, look at the rise in gas prices from 2005 to 2008, during some of the best economic times we had. How do you account for that?