http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/07/morning-report-riverboat-to-sail-from-nlr Comments On: Morning report: Riverboat to sail from NLR? by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:30:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:24:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
GLBB, I watched "ABC This Week" yesterday. In my opinion, Cotton seemed uncomfortable in front of the camera. Stephanopolous missed a great opportunity to pin Tall Tom to the wall on his Sandy vote.
Posted by evil monkey sez]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:07:41 -0600 Arkansas Times In 1967, three year’s after the Kennedy tax cuts, the Johnson Administration was already running huge deficits thanks to the a combination of Great Society social programs and the Vietnam War. Writing in his regular Newsweek column on August 7, 1967, Friedman expresseded his concern that this would soon lead to higher taxes, using an analysis that would become familiar to his readers over the years:

“.If we adopt such programs, does not fiscal responsibility at least call for imposing taxes to pay for them? The answer is that postwar experience has demonstrated two things. First, that Congress will spend whatever the tax system will raise—plus a little (and recently, a lot) more. Second, that, surprising as it seems, it has proved difficult to get taxes down once they are raised. The special interests created by government spending have proved more potent than the general interest in tax reduction.

“If taxes are raised in order to keep down the deficit, the result is likely to be a higher norm for government spending. Deficits will again mount and the process will be repeated.”

Sure enough, a year later a 10% income tax surcharge was enacted by Congress to cut the deficit and fight inflation. His prediction having been confirmed


http://thedailyhatch.org/2013/01/07/open-l…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:05:39 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Self Appointed Arbiter]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:45:06 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:29:17 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by imjustsaying]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:53:32 -0600 Arkansas Times
The high-water mark for Arkansas not being a moocher state was 1996, so crediting Clinton may or may not be apropos, but that's beside the point. THIS link has Arkansas as being a net recipient every year since 1980. I wish I could find it, but I did see a recent article regarding 2011, and Arkansas was not a net recipient that year.

The many conflicting reports be damned, I think it's safe to say that Arkansas doesn't have a miserable record of mooching, relative to most red states, for the last 20-30 years. We ain't Mississippi; we've been led by sane politicians for the most part, not dirty teabaggers.


**This study apportioned the annual federal deficit racked up during each year in its study between the states, whereas other studies don't.
Posted by munkle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:53:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by munkle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:32:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
A 20 year average is meaningless -- in the long run, we're all dead, as they say. Under Bush, while millionaires celebrated and the deficit skytocketed, my middle-class income turned into a fraction of what it was under Clinton.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:16:06 -0600 Arkansas Times

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/…
Posted by munkle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:00:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:29:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:27:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by munkle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:01:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:00:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by munkle]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:46:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
I wonder if Tom will vote against farm subsidies.
Posted by beerforbreakfast]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:46:37 -0600 Arkansas Times