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Best HD Cloning Software

I've been using Casper XP for years without one problem.
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- Post #10
- May 27, 2011
- Forum: Windows
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Failure of the Reagan Era

Cut tax rates, especially the corporate tax, and simplify the code to grow the economy. Economic growth, not redistribution, is the way to increase prosperity and tax revenues. More restrictive financial regulations are needed for government. Fannie and Freddie, which drove the recent crisis...
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- Post #18
- May 22, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why you should respect LEGAL immigrants

I agree, in part. I do indeed live as an American, not like a German from the late 1600's when my ancestors came over. That's no doubt true for most of us. I think the salutory immigrant effect is still there, though. Much of the rest of the world has traditions going back thousands of...
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- Post #31
- May 18, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why you should respect LEGAL immigrants

Many speak their old languages, send money home, hang out with folks from their old country, and so forth. Still, they are living in America, not wherever they came from. It takes guts to change countries. I'd like to see the border sealed, and illegal immigration dealt with harshly, after a...
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- Post #30
- May 18, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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GM Food - Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith

Just in: Pesticides May Raise Kids' Risk of ADHD Study Shows Food Is Likely Source of Pesticide Exposure Linked to ADHD http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/news/20100517/common-pesticides-double-kids-adhd-risk?ecd=wnl_day_051810
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- Post #113
- May 18, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why you should respect LEGAL immigrants

I am a huge fan of legal immigrants. They leave their families, culture, and security behind, taking big risks looking for a better life. I think that may be the number one reason America is such a great country. We're all basically immigrants. I love Latin American immigrants as much as any...
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- Post #21
- May 17, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Even Reagan Wasnt a Reagan Republican

Congress, not the president, has the power to raise or lower taxes and spending. Reagan got a democratic congress to pass massive supply-side tax cuts. It has an historic feat of leadership.
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- Post #48
- May 14, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Even Reagan Wasnt a Reagan Republican

The fiscal policy section of why Reagan was supposedly not a Reaganite is all leftist lies and distortions, the usual ones they've been repeating for decades. The biggest is that Reagan was a tax increaser. Yes, Reagan raised taxes after he lowered them. He didn't want to. The congress was...
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- Post #46
- May 14, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Are you watching Greece implode?

I understood you meant the flat tax. Its proven a useful tool in reducing tax evasion. You may not be convinced, but that doesn't make raising the point illegitimate. I agree other measures, such as stepping up enforcement, would probably help too. Compliance is a problem of high rates and a...
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- Post #409
- May 13, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Are you watching Greece implode?

I got the data from a Wall St. Journal/Heritage Foundation site that creates an "index of economic freedom" and ranks countries. http://www.heritage.org/index/Explore.aspx?view=by-variables In 20 months Obama increased the national debt by over $3 trillion. It took Bush 8 years to increase it...
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- Post #340
- May 10, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Are you watching Greece implode?

This thread is about Greece failing. Tax evasion is being touted as a cause. Why is suggesting government policy to deal with tax evasion unneeded "rhetoric"? I can't prove anything, in the scientific sense. Does that mean I can't bring an idea up? One of the main ways corporations and...
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- Post #339
- May 10, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Are you watching Greece implode?

Tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is 34.4 for Greece, 28.3 and climbing fast for the US. We're getting there. Bush Jr and congressional Repubs legitimized the whole phony "stimulus" idea. Same for corporate bailouts. He took war off budget. He launched the massive drug entitlement. Massive...
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- Post #332
- May 8, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Are you watching Greece implode?

Those are good points. I don't think low tax rates and effective low rates due to non-compliance have the same economic benefit, though. Tax evaders have to worry about hiding their income. It's an incentive to hoarding, not investment. I think the main problem with adopting the Euro was...
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- Post #331
- May 8, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Are you watching Greece implode?

Sorry, I misunderstood you point. I thought you were talking about tax rates, not tax evasion. Still, I don't think many tea partyers would be a fans of the Greek system. Massive government spending on politically active groups and high tax rates help incumbent politicos, not the economy...
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- Post #329
- May 8, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News
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Are you watching Greece implode?

With a low flat tax you'd get much less tax evasion.
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- Post #328
- May 8, 2010
- Forum: Politics and News

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