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Actually going back to the Republican debates, Romney was one of many who said that he would fire Bernanke.

At one time I voted for every Libertarian on the ballot.  My reasoning was simple, I believe in the Constitution and wanted to support candidates who did so too.  But over time I came to the realization that we do have a two party system and the best way to get people in office who represent...

That's really a complicated issue.  If we were the only country printing money, the devaluation of the dollar would make US produced goods cheaper for foreign competitors.  But that assumes that fair trade exists and that governments wont attach tariffs to US produced goods to make them less...

So how do you feel about Obama's association with Reverend Wright?

I think it needs to be called QE(i) because it is infinite.  My opinion is that it will good stock prices and commodity prices, but that it will have no impact on the real economy.  Inflation is never a good thing.

Of course that is all on the revenue side.  Both Romney and Ryan say that Federal spending needs to be brought to 20% of GDP or lower from the current 24%.  Though the media paints cuts like that in draconian terms, really what they are saying is that the Federal government needs to be brought...

What did you think? This may be overly optimistic, but the potential for something historic happening is there.  Of course it all depends on what happens on November 6th, but the difference in demeanor and the impact on the race reminds me of what we heard in history classes about...

I think there is a 4th part to the Romney algebraic equation - a growing economy not only increases the number of tax payers, but everyone makes more money from economic expansion, so even though they pay lower rates, there is an offset from paying lower rates against higher income.

Even though we never met in person, I am game.

I don't think anyone here (and few people anywhere) can accurately make the statement that you made (and that I put in bold). At the end of the day, calculating federal revenues is an algebra problem.  The 73,000+ pages of tax code create categories of revenue and categories of credits and/or...

Thank you.  Also think about the impact on the economy of removing dead weight from government off of the backs of people everywhere.  Aside from the additional $300 billion (a little Googling shows that number is conservative.  Arthur Laffer estimates the burden at over $430 billion annually)...

There is the understatement of the day! Along those lines, there is another thing I wish that Romney would have approached differently.  He said that his litmus test for spending would be whether or not a program was worth borrowing money from the Chinese to finance. To me, that should be a...

Or it could change the nature of their jobs.  Instead of navigating the bureaucracy of our tax system, they could be freed to use the same skills for financial planning.

This is going to sound controversial because he is the President of the United States, but long before last night I have been saying that he is a slacker.  The press fawns over him, but that's simply because he is a socialist.  He is nothing but an empty suit.

Well since it is my poll, I make the rules.  You can still vote.  But do yourself a favor and watch the link you posted.  Personally I would rather have Santorum facing Obama right now, but Romney did well.

For the record, Obama spoke for about 4 1/2 minutes longer than Romney did during the debate.

One thing that I wish Romney would have said, and that I hope Ryan will touch upon next Thursday is the impact of tax simplification on the economy.  Though I would love for Obama's rumored $5 trillion in tax cuts that Romney plans to be true, what would happen if a combination of lower rates...

Only vote if you watched it.

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I use WINEX simply because it is difficult to Google.  It comes from the WINE/WINEX project of porting Windows DLLs to Linux so that Windows binaries can run under Linux without the overhead of emulation.