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The Check is in the Mail

Started by Andrew S. · 8 months ago

With the ever expanding financial problems in the US and the World, state governments are having trouble coming up with the money they have promised to the unemployed. Not least of which is New York State. ... Continue reading »

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  • Andrew S.

    8 months ago

    Wow this is such a terrible idea. Why should we tax the private sector to protect public sector jobs? Why not let the public sector jobs be reduced and let those people work in the private sector. According to the calculations in my head that would increase tax revenues while keeping taxes unchanged. Also according to my calculations this would result in a growth of our economy instead of continual handicapping the NYS economy. It's already hard enough to do business in the US, and it's even harder in this state. Leave it to politicians to make it even harder.
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  • Sean Liebel

    8 months ago

    Let's not forget to mention that over time America has a 100 trillion dollar debt to pay off!
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  • Ethan

    8 months ago

    So it makes sense then that they would be loaning money to state governments, because it's obvious that the Federal Government is loaded. What's a few trillion more?
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  • Lipo

    6 months ago

    How will america survive 2009 with the debts and the number of unemployed people rising???
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  • Ethan

    6 months ago

    By returning to a sustainable society. What we have become is unsustainable. How can people continue to spend more money than they make? We must return to saving and investing in the future instead of spending away our future. We will have to live with less, in fact, we will have no choice. It is only a matter of time before the rest of the world gives up on supporting the US, at that point our survival will be in our own hands.
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  • Andrew S.

    5 months ago

    You have a good point here Ethan. I think you should expand this idea into a full article. My suggestion would be to show that all of the current talk about "sustainability" ignores the fact that most of our problems of overproduction, overconsumption, overspending and the like can be traced back to the overproduction of money. There's too much money being printed! There are environmental benefits to sound money.
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