@Mott-The-Hoople saidAre you asking how to spend less money?
😂 mmmm ok…explain how
Did you forget that trump took Obamas deficit spending and doubled it, before COVID?
That's not very conservative.
@no1marauder saidthese millions of illegals need a place to stay
Looks like you pulled that number out of your a**:
"The campaign estimated that more than 4 million first time-buyers over four years will gain significant down payment assistance through the program.
As part of Harris’ four-year plan to address the high cost and low supply of housing, the campaign proposed 3 million new housing units, a first-of-its-kind tax incent ...[text shortened]... down-payment aid in NC speech".
Sounds like a good plan addressing both supply and demand issues.
@wildgrass saidI want to know how bidens stimulus package was more conservative, spending less tax dollars as you claimed.
Are you asking how to spend less money?
Did you forget that trump took Obamas deficit spending and doubled it, before COVID?
That's not very conservative.
oh, excuse me, you are trying to change the subject…right?
@AverageJoe1 saidThen how did we win WW2 with taxes as high as 90%?
You are such a fool.
If this person, who is nothing but ideological, Controls the price of eggs, there will be less age. If she controls the price of cars, there will be less cars. If she controls the price of steel, there will be less steel.
And the $25,000 house subsidy will without question caused the price of houses to go up. This will cause the number of buyers to go down.
Fool
Companies realized they were still making a profit.
They upped their production, still made a profit, and we out-produced the axis powers.
Today corporations would stomp their feet, whine and complain, and we'd be under fascist control.
@Cliff-Mashburn
Maybe not but he has hundreds of thousands of covid deaths on his hands from his clear incompetence handling the covid pandemic. Ingest bleach, stick a UV light up our ass, kills covid in minutes is not the way to handle covid. All his anti mask BS was just Trump ignoring the real crisis on our hands where a fuuking MILLION people died and he goes 'it will all be over by Easter' and we all see how well THAT went.
Trump let America down BIG TIME on covid and repubs are trying to rewrite history saying how well he did which is total BS.
For instance WE remember the episode where a blue state bought ventilators for their hospitals and Trump had his boys confiscate the whole lot and they went right to red states, theft of government property right out in the open, but history will not let his incompetence and outright thievery go unnoticed.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidThere's no how. Bidens stimulus package spent less money.
I want to know how bidens stimulus package was more conservative, spending less tax dollars as you claimed.
oh, excuse me, you are trying to change the subject…right?
@no1marauder saidIF the People or their elected representatives decide that the price a good is being sold at is too high or too low and wish to regulate it, they have a legitimate power to do so - there is no Natural Right to sell a good at Price X rather than Price Y.
Modern economies have very little to do with your simple minded analogies.
Economic systems are man made creations which should serve the needs of the People. IF the People or their elected representatives decide that the price a good is being sold at is too high or too low and wish to regulate it, they have a legitimate power to do so - there is no Natural Right to se ...[text shortened]... dustries so that a few firms have market shares exceeding 50%. Addressing that would be a good idea.
Oh, really? What really happens, as you are wrong 100%, is that if 'the People' don't want a product, they do not buy it. The company ends up being overstocked, so they slash the prices. I am amazed that a guy with a lexnex does not get that. And see if you can get this....If the 'People' love a product, and make a run on it at the company, the company will RAISE the price, this is Econ101.
Do you see now how the 'people' in effect decide prices? Can you tell us where the government sticks its nose into this free enterprise? Do you know how to spell free enterprise? I just love it, myself. You do not. YOU are a communist.
Hey Moonbus, et al, is he a communist??
@AverageJoe1
God, speaking out your ass again. Right, M1 is a communist.
The REAL communist here, a literal ADMITTED communist is Metal Brain, whoever he or she is in real life. As such he will make the pitch to end democracy here and your bleating out about communists is just that bleating out like sheep due for shearing.
@AverageJoe1 saidIF the People wanted unbridled and unregulated capitalism that would always be true. However in the US, they've rejected that philosophy since at least the Great Depression and probably well before that.
IF the People or their elected representatives decide that the price a good is being sold at is too high or too low and wish to regulate it, they have a legitimate power to do so - there is no Natural Right to sell a good at Price X rather than Price Y.
Oh, really? What really happens, as you are wrong 100%, is that if 'the People' don't want a product, they do not bu ...[text shortened]... I just love it, myself. You do not. YOU are a communist.
Hey Moonbus, et al, is he a communist??
And it seems strange for right wingers to complain and whine about inflation and insist the government do something about it only to turn around when such measures are proposed to now insist the government has no role whatsoever in prices.
Really make up your minds.
@no1marauder saidYou generalize and true to form, you skip the issue. Does the government fix prices? They are talking about doing it now, so. It must follow that they are not fixed right now.
IF the People wanted unbridled and unregulated capitalism that would always be true. However in the US, they've rejected that philosophy since at least the Great Depression and probably well before that.
And it seems strange for right wingers to complain and whine about inflation and insist the government do something about it only to turn around when such measures are ...[text shortened]... roposed to now insist the government has no role whatsoever in prices.
Really make up your minds.
@AverageJoe1 saidI already answered this question, but I guess not at a simple enough level for you to understand it:
You generalize and true to form, you skip the issue. Does the government fix prices? They are talking about doing it now, so. It must follow that they are not fixed right now.
no1: IF the People or their elected representatives decide that the price a good is being sold at is too high or too low and wish to regulate it, they have a legitimate power to do so - there is no Natural Right to sell a good at Price X rather than Price Y.
What part of that don't you understand?
@no1marauder saidApparently “all”.🤔😲
I already answered this question, but I guess not at a simple enough level for you to understand it:
no1: IF the People or their elected representatives decide that the price a good is being sold at is too high or too low and wish to regulate it, they have a legitimate power to do so - there is no Natural Right to sell a good at Price X rather than Price Y.
What part of that don't you understand?
@no1marauder saidThey have power to do so. Legitimate? What authority? You must mean when Dems take over?
I already answered this question, but I guess not at a simple enough level for you to understand it:
no1: IF the People or their elected representatives decide that the price a good is being sold at is too high or too low and wish to regulate it, they have a legitimate power to do so - there is no Natural Right to sell a good at Price X rather than Price Y.
What part of that don't you understand?
@no1marauder saidYou say the solution to inflation will be controlling prices. I just read that and could not believe it. There are a lot of solutions possible for inflation, Trump’s being to get energy lined up properly which affects every part of our society. That will bring inflation down. No sense discussing what raising prices will do to inflation. It is all over the Internet. It will make it worse. It will make everything worse. Don’t be an idiot.
IF the People wanted unbridled and unregulated capitalism that would always be true. However in the US, they've rejected that philosophy since at least the Great Depression and probably well before that.
And it seems strange for right wingers to complain and whine about inflation and insist the government do something about it only to turn around when such measures are ...[text shortened]... roposed to now insist the government has no role whatsoever in prices.
Really make up your minds.
@AverageJoe1 saidThe US is producing more energy than ever and has been throughout the Biden administration:
You say the solution to inflation will be controlling prices. I just read that and could not believe it. There are a lot of solutions possible for inflation, Trump’s being to get energy lined up properly which affects every part of our society. That will bring inflation down. No sense discussing what raising prices will do to inflation. It is all over the Internet. It will make it worse. It will make everything worse. Don’t be an idiot.
"Overall U.S. energy production — which includes everything from heating oil to gasoline to sources used to generate electricity such as coal, natural gas and renewables — hit 102.82 quadrillion British thermal units in 2023, more than 4% higher than the 2022 level, which was the previous record."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris/fact-checking-kamala-harris-on-energy-production-i/
But I hate to break it to you; more US energy production won't reduce prices anywhere near as much as reducing US demand would.
For example, the US produces about 15% of world oil (and current production is the highest any country had - EVER): https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545
But we consume about 25% of the world's oil or about 5 million more barrels a day than we produce. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&t=6
So "drill baby drill" ain't going to work for two reasons:
A) There's no way we could produce enough to fill our energy needs with the reserves and technology that now exist; and
B) IF in the unlikely event fuel prices did go down, it would be a disincentive for oil companies (private corporations primarily interested in profits) to continue drilling at those levels and they'd cut back.
Ever hear of supply and demand? That's how it works. The only real way to cut energy prices is to consume less which the Democrats have some good ideas (like higher fuels standards for example) to do all that right wingers hate.