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In my parents' time, there were certain jobs available to people (the civil service, the bank, the farm, teaching or nursing) and most of them were long-term, secure and pensionable. The world we live and attempt to work in is now unrecognizable.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not yearning for the fadó fadó days of narrow vocationalism by any stretch. It's a marvelous thing to have not only a greater choice of jobs but better knowledge transfer and employment mobility, but as is often the case with Ireland we have oscillated from one extreme to the other with no concern for balance.
Currently, we have all the insecurity and uncertainty of mobile employment without the range or variety of jobs to make it work. Therefore, we have a host of young people struggling to find any job in any market, not least the one for which they're qualified, and often multi-qualified.
With so much demand and so little supply, hiring practices have taken on a moral dimension. More and more young people trying to advance their careers are having to do more for less. With employers holding the cards and graduates desperate for experience, remuneration often amounts to "a lovely time and a good reference."
The lines between serving your time and being outright exploited are being horribly blurred.
Instead of the pillars of employment of old we now have Job Bridge, a catastrophic attempt at a work scheme that has rightly drawn snorts of derision for being laden with jobs either too ridiculous (waitressing and cleaning) or too advanced in their requirements (a whole host of the media ones) to warrant a (much too long) nine month stretch of an "internship" for the princely price of the dole and a little bonus sprinkled on top. It's not how they do things in Holland.
While I was in Brussels at the EU Open Days event, I attended a seminar that showcased the Dutch policy for tackling youth unemployment. Some of the proposals were a bit out there, and it's far from a perfect system either, but on the whole their approach was multi-faceted, well coordinated and well targeted.
Amazingly, it's illegal to leave Dutch school at 18 without a qualification of some kind, and people younger than 27 have to comply by the rather rigorous rules or they don't receive dole at all. The flipside is there is a large structure in place to avoid that happening. The job fair circuit is an industry all of itself, along with a multitude of other initiatives such as work coaches, youth covenants and subsidies and premiums for business owners who co-operate actively in the process, as well as a robust internship and training sector. As a result, their unemployment rate among young people is half that in the BMW region (borders, midlands, west) of Ireland. The Dutch themselves sum up their plan thusly: partnership, personnel, political prudence and pressure. The Irish plan brings to mind another word that stars with "P".
While in Brussels I also talked to Connie Hanniffy, a county councilor from Offaly and senior member of the Irish delegation on the Committee of the Regions, being appointed to the continental committee by three different leaders of Fine Gael and with a particular interest in enterprise, business and employment. She claimed that we not only have to concentrate on more funding for skills and jobs, but we have to concentrate attention on who gets that funding.
"We're missing the very people we need to get at" claimed Hanniffy. "We need to be getting to people with traditions of unemployment in their family and their community and provide schemes for those that haven't had the direction. We need to engage with many people on a partnership basis."
She also pointed to the role EU funding can have in job creation and re-skilling, pointing to the globalisation fund for erstwhile construction workers and funding for people wishing to start up their own business and mentoring. "You can't subsidise your way into business but a structure is needed for business to survive. They may have good ideas but they may need help getting access to markets. Businesses need to interlink and find new ways of doing things."
On the more general question of the job market and the sort of jobs people do and the way they do them, Hanniffy pointed to the fantastic example she saw in Berlin, where more and more jobs were coming from the burgeoning creative sector. She also saw an important role for educational facilities. "It's up to colleges and universities not to try and pack courses, to provide balance and offer different boxes. I think this is what has been wrong in the past".
Of all the things Ireland is currently short on, talent is not one of them. And any future prosperity the country has will be determined by how serious government, business and all other interested stakeholders take the job of building a structure where that talent is valued and put to best use.
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ancavker | Oct 26, 2011, 10:56 AM EDT
Paddy: This is off topic, but related to an earlier post of yours. I am just back from Glasgow from a business trip, and the country was abuzz with th whole SNP independence referendum, and max devolution,a nd when this referendum will be held. Also discussions on whether the Queen will be the head of state of an independent Scotland, and military bases and so forth.
If this is to happen over the next few years, what then is the sense of a divided Ireland. (assuming the south fixes all it's problems)seems kind of silly that if Scotland leaves the UK there is still a border on the island of Ireland, not to mention the official name change. Or to argue another point, is it not ironic that after 300 years of union there may now be a border between England and Scotland, and yet this is what many Scots appear to want.
What I really was impressed with however, was th general enthusiasm of so many Scots to the idea of independence and running their own affairs, not to mention pride. I contrast that with the general malaise and indifference in the Republic of Ireland (even before the economic collapse) to independence, and the fact that everything did not work out as initially envisioned, and as such dispersion an criticism is leveled at the founding fathers,and the whole idea of independence. What a contrast. Perhaps the Irish might learn something from the Scots. Best of luck to the Scottish people whatever they decie in the future.
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GeorgeDillon | Oct 24, 2011, 02:08 AM EDT
All tis talk of unemployment in Ireland is a hoax, a true Irish Bull. There is no unemployment crisis in Ireland. To see the proof of what I am saying just check out the figures for INWARD migration into Ireland. Every month thousands of foreign settlers arrive to set up home in Ireland. Why would these people be coming if there were no jobs? There could be as many as a million foreigners in a population of four and a half million. But don't just take my word for the statistics. Walk around any Irish city or shopping mall--you'll see truly vast numbers of foreigners WORKING (you'll also see vast numbers of foreigners collecting benefits!). It's not just Dublin. I was in Athlone in the middle of Ireland a month or two back, and I saw three or four foreigners for every Irish person. Go to Penneys department store in the West Dublin suburbs--you'll be lucky if you see one Irish worker. Take a trip into Dublin from another European city. You'll see huge numbers of Russians, Poles, Africans etc. checking in for the flight. Try to catch a glimpse of their passports--you'll see that lots of these people are traveling on IRISH passports. On my last trip I was in line behind three Cuban women chatting away in Spanish. Imagine my surprise when all three pulled out Irish passports at check-in! I could go on with examples. But to repeat, Irish unemployment is a hoax and a farce. There are lots of jobs in Ireland, but Irish people are not doing them. Whether that is because they are too lazy or because--as I believe--Irish bosses discriminate in favor of docile foreign labor, that's a discussion for another day.
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Liamkeyes | Oct 23, 2011, 05:39 PM EDT
An excellent post by Mr. Duffy. He really done his homework. Well done Paddy!!!
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RedBranch | Oct 22, 2011, 01:15 PM EDT
Good Article, trust the Dutch to come up with some all embracing plan. Don't they still have National Service there?
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We have to get beyond the classic derision of games as a waste of time and start critically examining their role culture.
By Alan Williamson Published 17 October 2012 12:24"I had never read a book in my life. I'd barely even touched a page, except to confiscate my brother's novels so he would hang out with me. That impenetrable realm where awkward poindexters escaped into ludicrous worlds of printed fantasy, books and I just never got along.
Naturally I was surprised when I was asked to judge a book prize. The judges were assembling a panel of illiterates and I agreed to join them: not because I actually cared about whether books contributed to culture, but because I wanted to reconnect with my family of unashamed bookworms.
The first book I received was Ulysses by James Joyce, an eccentric Irish alcoholic who neglected his wife for six years while writing the novel. After suffering a few pages of this unfathomable word soup, I moved onto to Golding's Lord of the Flies, an action-adventure about schoolboys. I noted, "Surprisingly enjoyable. Nice adjectives. Like the allegorical dialogue," but then ran out of things to say. Maybe that's part of the reason there is so little cultural discussion of books: there simply isn't much to talk about. Lord of the Flies is clever and snappy, but it's not exactly Bioshock. It's not even Call of Duty."
It is ridiculous to criticise video games by comparison to literature, film, music, or interpretative dance. Unfortunately, Lucy Kellaway recently chose to evaluate them through this narrow cultural lens. As a judge for the GameCity prize, she was tasked with playing some of the year's most critically acclaimed titles including Journey, Fez and Proteus. To be fair, she gives them all a try, concluding: "This experiment has made me realise how bad I am at being bad at things".
Dara O'Briain once quipped that video games were the only medium that actively withheld its contents from the beholder: you would never have a progress-impeding quiz at the end of a book chapter, or be denied access to the next track of an album until you fully understood the previous music. While I would never mock Kellaway for being bad at games, I question her motivation for taking part in the GameCity judging process. She openly admits she doesn't care about games' contribution to culture. Like any other art form, it's just not fair to approach games with a bad attitude and a mind full of clichés.
Deriding a video game for its primitive narrative misses the point. You wouldn't read a book and complain about its lack of interactivity or longevity. While some games do have an engrossing story, it's not an essential prerequisite for greatness. I once wrote a satirical book review in the style of a game article to highlight the facile nature of video game criticism, but there's another point to be made: we can't criticise one medium for not living up to the expectations of another. This art gallery is boring; the pictures aren't animated. This opera is awful; I can't understand the plot. My girlfriend played Journey (voluntarily, I hasten to add) for the first time last weekend: she's not a "gamer", and she enjoyed it so much she wants to play it again. The difference here is in the intention, not the emotional reaction.
But what's most infuriating about Kellaway's piece is its underlying truth: most video games really don't have a lot to say. They generally have the lyrical nuance of a Eurodance song, and even a game like Spec Ops: The Line can't properly critique the horrors of war when the player herself is actively creating those horrors. Kellaway's favourite game from the selection was Journey, one of my favourites too. But I also love Hotline Miami, an ultra-violent and sadistically challenging title where you dress up in an animal mask and murder gangsters in a hallucinogenic world. I'm not even ashamed - it's a brilliant game! - but I wouldn't pretend it had reached a zenith of cultural significance. Video games were born as entertainment, and like cinema they have matured beyond this role, but the existence of the Cannes festival does not preclude the continued success of Hollywood. Games exist on a broad spectrum from the outrageous Borderlands 2 to the deeply personal dys4ia.
It's sad that the most popular and heavily marketed titles are superficial junk food for the brain, like Call of Duty and FIFA. I loved The Raid, but I wouldn't watch it with my granny, and likewise her only knowledge of games will be an advertisement awkwardly sandwiched into a break during Coronation Street. She has just broken her hip and a Nintendo DS would stave off the boredom of rehabilitation, but you can't give a games console to someone who struggles with a television remote. I emphasise with Kellaway's feelings of having inadequate dexterity: video games are often unashamedly elitist and obtuse, which makes the work of the charity Special Effect for users with disabilities even more praiseworthy.
Like many games, gaming culture itself is often tasteless and offensive. "Booth babes", casual sexism, homophobia, transphobia: you name it and it will be there, unveiled and unpleasant. In many ways 2012 has been a watershed year for gaming discourse where the community has openly challenged its worst elements, but there's still a mountain of intolerance and cruelty to climb before gaming culture is a place where all feel welcome. Sometimes I feel like I'm defending the indefensible. Yet pointing at Call of Duty and saying "look at how worthless these games are" is like playing the new One Direction single as evidence for the death of music as art. Although maybe that's true.
As an self-professed adventurer of digital fictions, it hurts to admit that much is rotten about the state of video games. But the way to improve this cannot be to dismiss games as "not all evil", which suggests that most games are evil as if Satan himself was distributing the software. Is that why you can't play a game backwards? Even if Kellaway doesn't care about their place in the cultural conversation, I do, because they are as much a reflection of culture as anything else. GameCity is important: quite frankly, games deserve a better discourse than what is currently on offer. We need more criticism that is intelligent, personally reflective and nuanced; treating games more like experiences and less like gadgets. We need to critically examine the role of games in culture, because we can only demand more from our media when we understand where they fall short. Sure, video games are fun, but they're serious fun.
Kellaway's final insult is the classic derision of games as a waste of time: she has no time to play them when "there is life to be lived and books to be read and emails to be written". But even if you lived in a cave with only books for cultural sustenance, you could never read them all. There will always be a choice of indulgences, and I find that quite thrilling. As a good friend puts it: "time you spend doing something you enjoy is never wasted". And to be honest, if I miss out on reading a few books because I'm playing Journey, that's a life well wasted.
Alan Williamson is editor of Split Screen. He tweets as @agbear.
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I think that the problem is that some games producers also think that they have something to prove; that games can be mature, and that somehow maturity = substance equivalent to that you'll find in other mediums. But it doesn't work like that.
They're called games for a reason - their main aim is to entertain, or at least, that's what it should be. that they may instil some kind of emotional response should be of secondary concern to, well...everyone. For instance, Heavy Rain and LA Noire - everyone concentrated on how, 'real' everything looked, and how mature the content, but the actual gameplay was pretty simplistic in both cases, very linear with limited actual choice - like a 'choose your own adventure' book with pretty graphics. There's no real connection to the characters. Doesn't mean to say that this can't happen - ICO and Final Fantasy 7 sprint to mind (well, I was sad when Aeris copped it), but it's rare.
Maybe there is an argument to be made that gameplay itself hasn't really progressed since gaming became, 'mainstream', at least in those genres that sell, but blame big budgets for console games and the need to be a 'winner' for that - if you want to see where the interesting stuff's happening, take a look on a PC, Mac, or even your phone.
as an aside, FIFA13 being in that final line up for this prize was a complete JOKE.
"Emails to be written"?
I could almost understand the dismissal in favor of books but...seriously? Email?
This is one of the more frustrating parts of these sorts of discussion. If the case were being made that one shouldn't waste time with digital trivialities, it'd almost be sympathetic. But then we inevitably find out that the writer in question spends hours upon end immersed neck-deep in digital trivialities (read: social media and electronic gossiping.)
It doesn't even really have much to do with socialization, considering that publishers are loathe to release single-player games these days. No, it seems to just come down to "my triviality is better than your triviality". It's a popularity contest. Nothing more.
I was thinking the same thing. She may as well have said "There are comments to be posted".
How on Earth did you get most of this from the FT piece, man? It's positively bizarre.
More to the point, here we have a headline that says we shouldn't dismiss non-gamers when they talk about games that spends the ENTIRE article finding ways to dismiss a non gamers views mixed in with the obligatory gamer self flagellation that seems weirdly par for the course in some quarters.
I just don't even know how you get here, I really don't.
" a game like Spec Ops: The Line can't properly critique the horrors of war when the player herself is actively creating those horrors" -- doesn't that in fact make it more complex? Suddenly we have a myriad number of possible texts, with the player deeply involved in the role, indeed participating.
Also I think enough has been written now on gaming that we don't have to use Brooker's Gameswipe as a critical text.
Though I do agree that "pointing at Call of Duty and saying 'look at how worthless these games are' is like playing the new One Direction single as evidence for the death of music as art". And, indeed, neither can be seen as distinct from the culture that produced them. These are all intertextual works drawing on a long and broad history in their disciplines, not isolated texts.
Re Spec Ops, yes, I feel it does work in the game's favour. After all, "You're only here because you wanted to be something you're not"...
Exactly, the self-referential and self-critical elements of the plot arc lend it a significant degree of complexity that seems to be more and more common these days. And what's nice about these levels of complexity in video games is that it is a level that you can voluntarily opt into--you could play Bioshock just for the shooting, and completely forgo the Randian narrative at its core.


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they still are closing, if you read it again you'll notice that they say this partnership is through supercross only. JDR did already announce that they'd be closing their doors, but that they'd honor their contracts through the end of the year (or maybe it was through just the end of supercross, I can't remember). Which is kind of cool, because at least they're not like the other couple teams which have recently folded & just threw in the towel right in the middle of the season leaving everybody hanging. I could be wrong here, but it's pretty obvious JDR was having big-time funding issues. Having go rhino step in to help them out through the remainder of the season should (hopefully) make it a little easier on their riders/mechanics. I know they have some talent developing, and it would suck to have to be dealing with not getting new parts/equipment/possibly not getting paid....hopefully all the riders/mechanics/support personnel land on their feet somewhere and don't end up getting left on the outside looking in next year.


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An antitax advocacy group zinged Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorums tax plan, giving him a grade of D+ grade and the dubious honor of proposing what may be the worst idea of any of the Republican candidates.
The good news is Santorum has gotten more specific about his tax plan since last month when we gave him a D+, economist William McBride wrote on Thursday. The bad news is hes gotten more specific.
Mr. McBride said the biggest problem with Mr. Santorums proposal is the sharply different corporate tax rates he would establish. Mr. Santorum would halve the corporate tax rate to 17.5% from its current top rate of 35%. Manufacturers, however, would not have to pay any corporate taxes.
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While the Santorum campaign has filled in some of the details in recent weeks, big ones remain missing, Mr. McBride wrote. The plan would collapse the current six rates to just two 10% and 28% but it doesnt specify who would pay those rates, he said, adding: Thats kind of important.
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We have some experience with this, through the manufacturing deduction that went into effect in 2004, which engendered a national conversation on the subtle distinctions between burger flipping and manufacturing. Ultimately, nearly every industry took and continues to take the manufacturing deduction, based on IRS data.
...we could expect a much bigger effect of such a grossly differential corporate rate. It would likely result in everyone claiming to be a manufacturer.
He also plans to reduce taxes on capital gains and dividends from the current 15 percent to 12 percent. That seems almost inconsequential and certainly timid compared to most of the other candidates who are proposing to eliminate these taxes all together.
I am NOT surprised.
Unlike Newt Gingrich, Santorum has no real plan.
His was a vanity run for VP and he's the very lucky recipient of Romney's vicious lies of smears of Newt Gingich who was otherwise running away with this election on his postive campaign of radical, and solid ideas and solutions which are sorely and desperately needed if we're going to have ANY HOPE at all of saving and restoring our Republic!
The tripling of the child deduction is LONG overdue. The idea that it might spur more children is great, we need then to grow up and work to pay into Social Security and make it a viable program. It would also allow for one of the parents to stay home and raise their children. It is long past time that the deduction gets close to the actual cost associated with child rearing. It is good for the family and subsequently the society.
Yes and yes.
There's really no argument to be made for Rick that doesn't include abject denial of the capability and competency Newt is offering.
That's why you never hear from a Santorum supporter about Saint Rick's excellent, visionary platform. It always starts off with "Newt is a SOB!", or something along those lines.
The 0 percent for manufacturers is most likely Rick's way of paying back his union buddies, who will just support the libs anyway. It's also playing favorites. It's funny that I heard him call this a "flat tax", even though it's 17 percent and 0 percent, two different tax rates. I don't understand why he doesn't call for eradicating the Capital Gains Tax. Makes no sense to me at all.
I prefer a fair tax myself. I actually really like Cain's 999, and he promises to continue campaigning on it. After this nomination fight is over and we have Newt, I'm jumping back on the Cain train and will do all I can to promote it (which isn't much). Nevertheless, Newt offers a flat tax at 15 percent, and corporate flat tax at 12.5 percent. No favoritism here. It's a good step in the right direction towards a truly equitable tax system. Each person paying the SAME amount, no favorites, no picking winners and losers, no using government to discourage certain business or encourage others at the expense of still many more.
It's my dream to one day see the progressive tax system we have now utterly destroyed and incapable of resurrection. Destroying it would do this country a lot of good.
I'd like to see more analysis on the child tax credit as an economic benefit. My suspicion is that it would spur more low-income households to have children, which would then need to be supported by the welfare state in countless other ways for decades to come. It would be dubious to me whether the financial losses on that welfare would pay off with increased social security revenue later on.
The problems with social security are much more fundamental than that. Like any Ponzi scheme, simply finding more new people to pay into the system is not a long-term or permanent solution.
Newt has the real solution to the social security system...private accounts that each individual would control. Like he said, it would require other funding to get us "over the hump" for current retirees as workers' funds are diverted into personal accounts, but after that short-term pain we would be locked into a solvent system in the long-term. The Ponzi scheme has to stop and a sane system needs to be developed to replace it.
Having more children is a good thing for society, but there needs to be a broader message and effort made to that end. Motivating it solely through the welfare system and tax code doesn't motivate 100% of the population anyway.
I also don't believe keeping half the population "barefoot and pregnant" can sustain our economy. The world is too competitive now. In Europe we're already seeing women performing better in the kind of jobs that are available in modern western countries. If laws have any role, they ought to promote more flex time, maternity leave or protection of a woman's job during pregnancy. I don't think children necessarily benefit from being coddled 24/7 throughout their young lives either. The idea that a woman would stay home and do nothing for her entire life but raise children seems like a real waste of potential, particularly once you get to the point where those children are in school throughout the day. To a certain degree, promoting this kind of society would result in my tax dollars ending up paying for someone to sit at home and watch soaps or play video games on Facebook most of the day. I think we all know how families handled their financial burdens decades ago, they didn't live beyond their means. Funding people with welfare so that they never have to make tough choices about their budgets and lifestyle is not the way to go.
The child tax deduction does not need to be tripled — it needs to be abolished.
Remember, every tax deduction that favors one person is using government force to take those same tax dollars from somebody else. People should only have children if they can afford them on their own — not by forcing their childless neighbors to carry their tax burden.
This type of thinking is Rick's problem — he thinks government social engineering is great ... as long as he's the one doing the dictating of what is "good" and "bad" behavior.
Just make it simple like Newt's ( ya stupid's ), but Romney and Santorum are both LAWYERS!
No more damn lawyers!
The goal for our country is not to provide enough welfare, redistributive justice and transfer payments so that no one ever has to live in the lower class. There have been plenty of wonderful people who grew up in a poor family or the lower class and worked their way up.
Exactly. Rick's tax plan is nothing but a list of vote-buying favors. He wants to make the tax code more complicated rather than less.
I like Newt's plan better. It is better conceived, although I think it needs at least one tweak: If someone chooses to use deductions and credits to get a rate lower than 15%, what they owe should never fall below 10% of AGI. No more tax freeloading for anybody. I don't care how many children YOU decided to have or how many electric cars YOU chose to buy or whether YOU get you income from labor or dividends or capital gains. Those were YOUR decisions and don't deserve special treatment that only ends up forcing someone else to pay your tax burden instead of paying your own way.
What Rick is offering in many cases is the kind of stuff that destroys and corrupts our political system. He is offering tailored payouts to favored constituencies, in essence buying votes. He tries to couch this stuff in flowery terms about how things like "manufacturing" and "families" are what America's all about or will "make America great" again. But that's just spin. He's buying votes the same way that Obama bought votes. It's truly disheartening to see politics reduced to seeing which candidate in either party can use taxpayer money to bribe the right groups of people to win an election. We desperately need fair, equitable government policy like Newt is proposing which truly gives us all an equal chance to pursue happiness on a level playing field. Rick is the worst offender in the whole Republican field at playing the Democrat game of dividing the population up and trying to build vote-buying into the tax code.
I concur.
Well, you'd have a bigger disagreement with Newt's policy then because he is eliminating the capital gains tax entirely (not sure if that's just the "long-term" cap gains tax or if the time distinction goes away). You have to believe that the cap gains tax has a direct relationship to spurring on investment and building the economy in order to believe that's the right policy. I haven't studied the issue in great depth to be able to argue the case one way or another. But for a long time our long-term cap gains tax has been intentionally lower than the income tax, that's for sure.
there he goes again.............
Santorum is horrible and so are his plans.
I hope people come to their senses and drop Rick prior to Super Tuesday. Newt needs to make a big comeback. Newt must successfully paint both Rick (because of this lame tax favoritism) and Romney (because of Romneycare) as government busybodies and no different than any other nanny-stater.
I do disagree on the cap gains tax, but I consider it minor compared to the other issue of allowing deductions and credits to create swaths of tax freeloaders.
Taxes on capital gains and dividends is bad mostly because it amounts to double taxation — a tax on the corporate profits already reduces the value of the shares and therefor a tax on the shareholders profits amounts to double taxation.
Personally, I'd completely eliminate the corporate income tax and the employer-side payroll tax. I'd replace them with a 10% tax on payroll costs, including the embedded labor costs of imports ala Cain. Hence the corporate profits would not be taxed ... until they landed in a shareholder's pocket as capital gains or dividends. So I would eliminate the double taxation, just as Newt does, but it would also eliminate all the overhead of tax compliance and lobbying which a simple corporate rate cut does not accomplish.
Santorum's lack of vision and thoroughness are what have me in Newt's camp.
His ideas and plans are old hash and proven failures. They have short term emotional appeal for the uninitiated and the uninformed. They sound good but that's as far as they go; just good soundbites.
Still I want to see Romney defeated at all cost and let Newt and Santorum vie for the top spot. Gingrich-Santorum is not a bad combo but Newt has the vision, philosophy, experience and knowledge of history over Santorum.
There. Fixed it.
You are not gaining much ground, todays Washington Times, http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/17/questions-surface-gingrich-campaign-travel-payment/
My thoughts exactly. I gave up my career to stay home and raise my kids. What a slap in the face to women like me.
And you think that Rick Santorum is insulting to women?
Cutting corporate taxes in half is a good thing. Other than pandering, there is no justification for eliminating the capital gains tax.
In Europe were already seeing women performing better in the kind of jobs that are available in modern western countries.
Besides, government can do a better job raising children.
Good for you. Women (and the men that support them) deserve a lot of credit for investing in their children. Not everyone can do it, but those who can are doing a great thing. (IMO, of course)
I don't follow you here. "Flat tax" proposals come in a lot of flavors, and some are pretty loophole ridden. Some, in fact, are really not flat taxes at all, but rather somewhat bold tax simplification plans that try to claim the flat tax mantle for tactical reasons. That said, every "flat tax" proposal I have ever seen, including the self-advertised "pure" ones, has a zero bracket amount and then a flat tax on incomes above that level. How is this any different?
A flat tax or the fair tax are the ONLY options IMHO.
See tagline.
I agree, Santorum has to be taught conservative economic solutions because he is only to the right of Democrats. Go Newt!
For an "anti-tax" group they sure are complaining a lot about some wanting to CUT taxes. Nice progressive leftist use of the word "fair" thrown in there too.
I have 4 kids and we homeschool them. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Free your mind from the communist idea that human beings are nothing more than economic units. Life is not work.
I think we all know how families handled their financial burdens decades ago...
Decades ago we had a mostly intact nuclear family with a mother at home and a father provider. In every way, this country was better. It was growing and prospering, in contrast to the European model we follow now, which is decline, collectivism, and political correctness.
Flat Tax NO! Because it leaves the 16th in place and it can then grow back into the cancer we have today.
The only part I have a major problem with is the manufacturer part, because it screams favoritism, and, how does one define "manufacturer"?
I would also like to see that the tripled child exemption is only useable if married filing jointly.
Romney and saint Rick will get eaten alive by thugbama. For me I am down to rp and newt.
Well, people would scream, but one way to keep it from encouraging the wrong people to have kids is to only allow the larger deduction if you are MFJ and both taxpayers are the legal parents (via birth or adoption) of the child in question, and otherwise, the standard current deduction applies.
Steals other ideas and solutions, and views every solution around Mega-Huge Government, regulation and restriction.
Rob from Peter to Pay Paul, big government mentality. And some here claim that this rank stupidity will bring manufacturing back to the USA that has already left. (And loving it in their new homes.) But more importantly, this is tailored to help the big Unions, who Santorum is deeply involved with and goes out of his way to support.
But by more than doubling the tax burden on other forms of industrial ventures, they will also leave as fast as they can.
This is typical Big Government, Union Loving behavior, from a failed Senator who was voted out for good reason.
Well, the nazi socialists agreed with JediJones' notion that women should be in the workforce and leave the care of their children to the state and "professional caregivers." All collectivists, socialists, and statists think that way. I disagree. I consider myself extremely blessed to be able to stay home and raise my own children.
#17 Under Adolf Hitler, the state started taking over the job of child care.
The following is more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann....
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology.
Of course this is exactly what is happening in America today. Children are raised by day care centers and public schools, and most parents spend very little time with their own children.
Santorums balanced-budget demand is of course suicide because the Leftists will use it as an excuse to raise taxes, the opposite of what needs to happen. There must be pressure to cut taxes and spending and that isnt done with a balanced budget amendment but with sound fiscal policy. A balanced budget amendment is a bad idea because it doesnt address our most critical political and economic problem: big government. It simply shifts the burden of the governments budget mismanagement problem onto the backs of the American people. Santorum's offering of a balanced budget instead of less government is a terrible choice.
You have missed the point entirely!
The absolute reason why the cost of living has gone so out of control, is due entirely on the out of control expansion of Government.
In early America, the family system was very strong, because the Father could easily support a family of 6 to 8, on his job alone. But due to the rapid increase in the size of Government, disproportionate to the increase in Goods and Services, the cost of living has gone up to the point where it takes two income earners to support a family of just 3 or 4.
The unhealthy combination of regulation, higher taxes on business, restrictive government agencies, etc,, has accelerated the process to the breaking point. To go into business or manufacturing these days is nearly impossible, unless you have Millions backing you just to open the doors.
Count me on board as well. JediJones, your comment at #8 is insulting!
DO NOT pick winners and losers. Set a single - LOW - rate and let the creativity of the free market work its magic. Why is a "manufacturer" any better then a software publisher or service provider?
Which would no doubt include anchor babies. No thanks.
Anyone who uses such a term is a mindless cliche dispenser unworthy of the time or effort a serious conversation requires.
Sadly, we're up to our eyebrows with such people.
Rick Santorum is not a fiscal conservative. He is a social conservative and a national security conservative. Few these days are true fiscal conservatives. Ron Paul is but I can not vote for him because of his foreign policy. I choose to support Newt because he is the closest we got to a fiscal conservative. Now having said that I will vote for Rick Santorum if he wins the nomination. I will not vote or support either Mitt Romney or Ron Paul. My first choice is Newt.
If tax-PAYERS had more kids, that would be a good thing.
I knew it when he jeered and sneered at Cain's 999 plan. He's not interested in reforming anything ...just sticking to the status big gov quo.
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Recently I reported that Angelina Jolie is working on a jewellery collection with Robert Procop and now, the images of the small collection are out and feature emerald and citrine pieces mounted in gold. Like their 2010 partnership, the collection is completely for charity. 'We're designing things she would wear, that she really truly loves,' Procop told the New York Times, 'then we sell them and give 100 percent to charity.'
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The award-winning CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), a co-curricular program of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), offers free, after-school and school-based arts programs for youth ages 6-18 in every discipline taught at CalArts. Programs are offered at public schools, community centers and social service agencies, covering a thousand square mile radius across Los Angeles County. With classes led by a teaching corps of accomplished CalArts faculty, alumni and student instructors, CAP participants learn to create original works of art and to experiment with prevailing conventions of artistic expression. CAP's success has served as a model for other arts education organizations locally and nationally. And the program has received numerous honors, including The President's Committee on Arts and Humanities' Coming Up Taller Award, which recognizes effective programs that foster the creative and intellectual development of America's children.
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* Brent N. Butler, 33, of River Street, was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery. A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 16.
* Kathleen M. Dudziak, 20, of Beverly Street in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., admitted to sufficient facts on one charge each of operating under the influence and leaving the scene of property damage. The charges were continued without a finding until Oct. 4, 2013. Dudziak was ordered to pay an OUI fee of $250, a $50 OUI victims fee, $50 to the victim and witness fund, and a probation fee of $65 a month. She was also ordered to attend and complete an in-patient 14-day program by Feb. 1, 2013, and remain drug and alcohol free with screens. Her license was suspended for 210 days.
On a charge of a marked-lanes violation, Dudziak admitted to sufficient facts and was found responsible. The finding was filed with the defendant's consent.
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Jordan: Cash assistance for Syrian refugees beset by mounting needs
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When asked why Alan Ball cast Skarsgård as Eric Northman:
"Aside from the fact that he looks like a Viking god? Eric's a tricky character. He's done some really horrible things, but we still have to like him. Alex can make Eric ruthless but at the same time totally captivating and even sympathetic."Alexander Skarsgård for Bullet Magazine Vol. VII Summer 2012