(06-14-2019 11:10 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 10:42 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 09:40 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 09:24 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-14-2019 07:54 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  *sigh* I never said there isn't an uptick of visitors to Las Vegas in June, 2019. I would have no basis to take that position. Maybe there will be 5,000,000 visitors this month. Maybe it will be consistent with previous years. I am just saying that there is no evidence that I could find that suggests that Trump's booming economy has led to more people taking their extra money to Las Vegas when you compare it to 2016 (which is what you suggested in your original post).


Increasing 529 contributions.

Some people use their gains to fund 529s. I am using my gains to help fund maintaining my invalid sister. Others may buy a car. Others may take a vacation to Vegas. Others may use it to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing in the World Series. Is this such a leap? *sigh*

Agree. But I'm really not the population that deserves the tax break IMO.

Some say that the people who actually pay the taxes are those who are deserving of any breaks.

Quote:I'll take it for my kids' 529 (probably if I was a more principled person I'd send the entirety of it to charity). My receiving a tax windfall doesn't help the issue of income inequality.

And what is happening is that you are receiving more freedom to do whatever with the income that *you* earned. 529 it, spend it on hookers and blow, give it to income challenged people, burn it, or invest it. Awesome and simple concept at its core.

The interesting thing is that for every action in that list above (but one) that money is providing a far better multiplier than the government friction stop that taxes represent overall.

And further, one would hope, is that you respect the freedom not only of *your* liberated money, but that of others as well.

I have no issue with you wanting to (and actually performing the action of) use(ing) it to affect income inequality. Your money, your right to to with it as you please. The main issue with progressive stances is that simple respect of those amounts for others typically isnt held.

And the main problem with conservatives stances is that they fail to publicly recognize that the government has an important role to play in keeping society running and providing for the common good - and that costs money.

We have a woefully neglected infrastructure system because Republicans have morphed into the party of every policy proposed by the Democrats is socialist or taxes must always be cut, deficit, integral services, etc. be damned.

We need better roads and bridges to make travel more efficient, the movement of most major electrical infrastructure underground so we do not need to waste millions in repair costs after every major storm, and so on.

I double dog dare you to find a conservative who states 'fk building roads', or 'fk the bridges' in lieu of being taxed for those items.

Some of those 'infrastructure' plays you regale us with include the (in)famous Alaska bridge to nowhere, mind you. Or how about the fing California 'high speed rail' between farm communities extending only 50 mile.

I dont think there is a single conservative that disdains the 'core function' of government you wax so eloquently about --- defense, disaster relief, etc at the Federal level; roads, bridges, highways, dams at the less than Federal level.

But for all your yelping about 'how conservatives disdain infrastructure and core government', you amazingly gloss the fk over the actual monies spent on them. Compared to the gd social welfare state, the issues on 'infrastructure' are a friggin spit in the ocean when stacked against the fing 2.75 trillion or so in 'mandatory spending', of which about 85% is directed to Social Security and medicare/medicaid.

And yes, dont you gd call these as 'earned benefits' -- there is no fing way I will *ever* see any decent fraction of the monies I have pumped in the pyramid/redistributionist-centric scheme of Social Security.

On top of that it is the progressive ideology that wants to double down on things like 'hell lets pay for college for *everyone*' (on my back, mind you) and all of the other Madoff-like programs that are proposed by the progressive school of thought this election cycle.

So no, I dont buy your 'conservatives whine about roads' schtick --- most if not all conservatives I know are true business people and realize these are investments in the economy. The real issue is is the fing redistribution machine that the Federal government applies on a Manhattan-project scale each and every fiscal cycle. *That* is what most conservatives ***** about.