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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:31:14 +0100
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On 17/10/2024 16:29, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> On 17/10/2024 16:14, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>>> On 17/10/2024 15:10, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>> The facts are that Democratic administrations have been shown to
>>>>> provide far better economic growth than any Republican administration,
>>>>> and far less gets added to the deficit and ultimately the debt.
>>>>
>>>> My impression is that it is in fact the reverse.
>>>
>>> Your impressions aren't facts.  Look it up.
>>>
>>> https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/10/the-u-s-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidents
>>
>> Now where is the taxation level in that?
>> Any fool, especially a democrat fool, can tax more and create employment
>> in makework public sector jobs.
> 
> Moving the goalposts is typical for you.   There's no evidence
> for 'makework public sector jobs' in that report.
> 
Exactly. They forebore from mentioning those.

> The economy was just fine with the tax rates during the
> clinton administration, for example.   The bush cuts
> and orange clown cuts benefited the ultra-rich, not
> the typical US citizen.  Trump's tariffs hurt the
> poor and the middle class, not China.  Even Reagan
> raised taxes the last seven years of his two terms
> as his advisors (except the psychic) recommended.

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