warakas    you are half right    read the article again   some tax cuts came from surprising places     john kennedy   bill clinton  flaming liberals  ?  but good for business cause they used the money prudently     then we have ronald reagan who cut taxes and greatly increased spending   not exactly a recipe for sound...more

well written article    I hope some of the "dont tax the rich republicans" read this and start using their brains instead of their avarice lifestyles to govern.     I live on 50, 000 a year   surely  a billionaire and live on half a billion.

boy there sure are a lot of obama haters out here.   who says racism is dead?    the market is reacting the same way I did three days ago.   republicans were willing to default rather than pay debts we already had agreed to in previous budgetary bills   sponsored over the last 50 years by both parties.    raising the d...more

the debt limit was raised 18 times by his holiness ronald reagan and 7 times by his highness george bush and no one said a word    it really is a very simple thing to raise the debt limit    one page will do it.      what is hard is for politicians to refrain from wheeling and dealing to get this defense plant or that ...more

a loan on 230000 at 4.5% fixed would cost about 1160 a month.   you d have to add property tax and insurance to that.   lets say 3000 a year or 250 a month.   total would be 1410.    100000 income = 8333 a month and they say you can afford 25% of your gross  so you could afford a payment up to 2083.   you would be well...more

must be the james river heh?    a few lakes   not as many as minnesota  but a few.   guess I havent actually passed through springfiled.   I turn north at joplin.   well maybe I ll make a side trip next time.

rivers in springfield   what river would that be?  must be small cause I ve never seen it driving by.  never seen the lakes either.   joplin up the road didnt imrpess me too much. they roll up the sidewalks at 10pm.   have to check the map now to see what rivers and lakes you are talking about.

well I dont intend to buy a home so property are not my worry and sales taxes are paid everywhere just like gas taxes and you hardly even know they are there cause they just get absorbed into the cost of living.

if that s the way a flat tax works  then it sounds pretty good to me.  I pay sales tax every day and I never stop to think about it. also pay gas tax and it doesnt stop me from buying gas.  but ultimatlely the price of gas might.   so if a flat tax is a sales tax  than it might be good  but my god  how high would it ha...more