re: Do republicans have egg on their faces right now in regards to taxation?

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good thing we don't have a president who does many of these.

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Regulation is one big reason the economic recovery took so long. That's why Gridlock in Congress is a good thing..it maintains status quo and there is less uncertainty which allows business to operate without worry of further laws and regs to tackle.

You can't be this dense. Check your want for immediate gratification at the door and understand that just bc a law is passed doesn't mean it has good or bad effects right away

Are you guys saying that if taxes were just cut and then the economy had this nice run that Republicans wouldn't be touting the correlation as definitive proof of causation?

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95% of the reason I have turned from them. Romney's economic plan with massive tax cuts was so frickingstupid and pie in the sky fantasy I figured it was a hoax until I realized he was serious.

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You do have the option of donating more of your money to the government if you feel it will help the economy and give the republicans a great big black eye.

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As far as taxing your average joe, tax rates won't affect GDP much at all unless they are so high that they kill incentive to work because there is no profit motivation to produce.

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Disagree. Higher taxes on earned income means consumers have less money to spend on goods and services. That means businesses see their income fall and their ability to invest/expand is limited.

No offense, OP, but you don't seem very knowledgeable concerning economics.

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Can I assume, then, that you're all for a drastically reduced military budget?

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Absolutely. We need to pull way back militarily. We need more troops stationed along our northern and southern border and far less in italy, germany, iraq, and afghanistan. If they want our protection, they can pay us for it via pmc's. The american military should protect america, that's it.

I'm also in favor of nixing the dept of education, department of energy, federal reserve, irs, combining the cia and nsa, combining all of our different law enforcement beauros into a single fbi. We can eliminate corn subsidies, ethanol mandates, ect all while we're at it. We need to take a cleaver to the federal government to get it back to its roots: building roads, military, print and borrow money, make treaties, regulate trade between states, provide disaster relief, ensure equal treatment under the law, run the postal service, settle disputes between the states, ect. That's about it. The states were given the power over everything else for a reason. People in far-flung states don't share the same values nor do they want the same things from their government. That's why we had a government that was so decentralized so that we had the potential for 50 solutions to a problem, tailored to the local population, rather than a one size fits all approach.

No

I still think taxes need to be raised to pay down debts and try and keep social security and Medicare around.

And now is the time to do it with a healthy economy. Really hate it the GOP has continued to force the Bush tax cuts to keep being extended.