Comments on: Modern American Bank™ http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/08/10/modern-american-bank%e2%84%a2/ Bridges, budgets, bonds Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: masaccio http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/08/10/modern-american-bank%e2%84%a2/comment-page-1/#comment-1081 masaccio Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:51:51 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/?p=2893#comment-1081 This is silly. Let's collect the taxes and then talk. Anything else is capitulation to the demands of the rich who screw around with the tax code, manipulate income and receipt of income, and otherwise evade US taxation, while sucking the life out of the rest of us. This is silly. Let’s collect the taxes and then talk. Anything else is capitulation to the demands of the rich who screw around with the tax code, manipulate income and receipt of income, and otherwise evade US taxation, while sucking the life out of the rest of us.

]]> By: Cate_Long http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/08/10/modern-american-bank%e2%84%a2/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Cate_Long Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:42:46 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/?p=2893#comment-403 My Jobs Plan: A Trillion Dollars For Infrastructure http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/trillion-dollars-infrastructure My Jobs Plan: A Trillion Dollars For Infrastructure

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/0 9/trillion-dollars-infrastructure

]]> By: econundertow http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/08/10/modern-american-bank%e2%84%a2/comment-page-1/#comment-330 econundertow Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:21:40 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/?p=2893#comment-330 Another shill, demanding we throw more cash down the auto rathole. More 'infrastructure' is always more freeways, more sprawl, more parking, more malls, more Pizza Huts, more, more, more of the same carp that has bankrupted us in the first place. "More solar panels and more electric cars!" they cry. How about less? How about less carp altogether? How about doing away the consumptive 'waste-based' economy before it does away with us? Let's reinvent the economy by making US energy the world's most expensive by orders of magnitude then turn America's inventive minds loose. More 'gadgets'? Fat chance, maybe the US can move beyond business as usual. Hyper-expensive energy and near-free housing: we are moving in that direction anyway, kicking and screaming. Events have grabbed the 'businessmen' and 'economists' by the scruffs of their necks and are carrying them to a future of 'Less'. Time to stop looking at this as a problem and make lemonade out of the lemons. Another shill, demanding we throw more cash down the auto rathole.

More ‘infrastructure’ is always more freeways, more sprawl, more parking, more malls, more Pizza Huts, more, more, more of the same carp that has bankrupted us in the first place.

“More solar panels and more electric cars!” they cry.

How about less? How about less carp altogether? How about doing away the consumptive ‘waste-based’ economy before it does away with us? Let’s reinvent the economy by making US energy the world’s most expensive by orders of magnitude then turn America’s inventive minds loose. More ‘gadgets’? Fat chance, maybe the US can move beyond business as usual.

Hyper-expensive energy and near-free housing: we are moving in that direction anyway, kicking and screaming. Events have grabbed the ‘businessmen’ and ‘economists’ by the scruffs of their necks and are carrying them to a future of ‘Less’. Time to stop looking at this as a problem and make lemonade out of the lemons.

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