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		<title>By: Debbie G</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5403936</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Debbie G]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ick, his money his full of cooties.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ick, his money his full of cooties.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can excessive use of the brakes harm your gas consumption and travel velocity?


Weird stuff!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can excessive use of the brakes harm your gas consumption and travel velocity?</p>
<p>Weird stuff!</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5403821</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bottoms are innately unjust. 


Nothing short of social justice will do. Government is magic when benign dictators are given our full faith. We naturally look to the DP to first destroy all dissent and then finally build our American Utopia.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bottoms are innately unjust. </p>
<p>Nothing short of social justice will do. Government is magic when benign dictators are given our full faith. We naturally look to the DP to first destroy all dissent and then finally build our American Utopia.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep REM.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Deep REM.</p>
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		<title>By: Hank Rearden</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5403614</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Rearden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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		<title>By: Douglas J. Bender</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5403553</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas J. Bender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You missed Hank&#039;s delicious sarcasm.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You missed Hank&#8217;s delicious sarcasm.</p>
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		<title>By: Douglas J. Bender</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5403552</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas J. Bender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simple.  Suppose the government taxed 100% of earnings.  Would that mean that revenue would increase, or decrease?  Technically, it might increase, for a while; but as people died off from starvation, or quit working and began living off the government dole, government revenue would DECREASE, even though it had raised taxes.  Similarly, as government began cutting taxes from that 100% (assuming the same number of people were alive), government revenue would be INCREASING.  But if they cut taxes to 0%, obviously revenue would DECREASE, as well.  So, there has to be a point (or several points) of inflection -- at some point, the government can begin taxing people at a rate which produces DECREASING government revenue; up to that point, increasing taxes will increase government revenue (but still might harm the economy). Thus, after that point, increasing taxes will DECREASE government revenue.  Same as it ever was.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simple.  Suppose the government taxed 100% of earnings.  Would that mean that revenue would increase, or decrease?  Technically, it might increase, for a while; but as people died off from starvation, or quit working and began living off the government dole, government revenue would DECREASE, even though it had raised taxes.  Similarly, as government began cutting taxes from that 100% (assuming the same number of people were alive), government revenue would be INCREASING.  But if they cut taxes to 0%, obviously revenue would DECREASE, as well.  So, there has to be a point (or several points) of inflection &#8212; at some point, the government can begin taxing people at a rate which produces DECREASING government revenue; up to that point, increasing taxes will increase government revenue (but still might harm the economy). Thus, after that point, increasing taxes will DECREASE government revenue.  Same as it ever was.</p>
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		<title>By: AndyNY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AndyNY]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look objectively at the steel industry as an example, you will find that union contracts pushed wages up to globally noncompetitive rates, and fought against increased productivity. This caused steel production in the US to cease entirely because US companies could not compete in the world market. The steel companies didn&#039;t outsource anything, they simply ceased to exist. The same almost happened to the auto industry, to the point where Bush and Obama had to use tax dollars to bail them out. Outsourcing is a symptom, not a cause. Government manipulation of markets is the cause. Companies outsource because in comparison to the rest of the world, unskilled and semi-skilled labor rates in the US are simply too high to stay in business because other countries make the same products in a global economy. &quot;Greed&quot; really isn&#039;t a factor as much as you would like to think it is.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you look objectively at the steel industry as an example, you will find that union contracts pushed wages up to globally noncompetitive rates, and fought against increased productivity. This caused steel production in the US to cease entirely because US companies could not compete in the world market. The steel companies didn&#8217;t outsource anything, they simply ceased to exist. The same almost happened to the auto industry, to the point where Bush and Obama had to use tax dollars to bail them out. Outsourcing is a symptom, not a cause. Government manipulation of markets is the cause. Companies outsource because in comparison to the rest of the world, unskilled and semi-skilled labor rates in the US are simply too high to stay in business because other countries make the same products in a global economy. &#8220;Greed&#8221; really isn&#8217;t a factor as much as you would like to think it is.</p>
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		<title>By: AndyNY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AndyNY]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then what happens to make Communism finally &quot;work&quot;?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Then what happens to make Communism finally &#8220;work&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>By: AndyNY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AndyNY]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You got me on that one, well played :-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You got me on that one, well played <img src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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		<title>By: Guest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, explain how cutting taxes can result in higher revenues with your math, because that is clearly what happened. You can do it, I know you can!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, explain how cutting taxes can result in higher revenues with your math, because that is clearly what happened. You can do it, I know you can!</p>
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		<title>By: AndyNY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AndyNY]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet it was just reported a few days ago that tax revenue broke another record this year. Do you understand what that means? Even though Reagan (and Bush) cut tax rates, the economy grew exponentially and generated more revenue for the government. So explain to us how tax cuts have made people poorer when the Government now has more revenue than ever before. 

You imply that raising taxes would would lift the poor and middle class, presumably by creating more and better paying jobs I guess. How would that work? You make a business pay more taxes, and they make up for the loss by hiring more people and giving everyone raises? Explain.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet it was just reported a few days ago that tax revenue broke another record this year. Do you understand what that means? Even though Reagan (and Bush) cut tax rates, the economy grew exponentially and generated more revenue for the government. So explain to us how tax cuts have made people poorer when the Government now has more revenue than ever before. </p>
<p>You imply that raising taxes would would lift the poor and middle class, presumably by creating more and better paying jobs I guess. How would that work? You make a business pay more taxes, and they make up for the loss by hiring more people and giving everyone raises? Explain.</p>
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		<title>By: Consider</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Consider]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cursory search of the web returns you readily the following:

&quot;Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data for 1979 and 1995 and controlling for education, experience, personal characteristics, parental status, city and region, occupation, industry, government employment, and part-time status, Yale University economics professor Joseph G. Altonji and the United States Secretary of Commerce Rebecca M. Blank found that only about 27% of the gender wage gap in each year is explained by differences in such characteristics.[20]&quot;
So 27% of 23%  (100-77%) gives about 6% that means that 17% difference in earnings remain unexplained by the wisdom of the author.
One may have objections to the above findings, but they nevertheless sound more convincing than the excuses given lightly by the author with the hand in  his pocket.
Even if one is to stick to the 77% figure wirhout reservations, questions could be asked: why women are under educated, why are they forced to take less paid jobs, why are they punished for having children etc.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A cursory search of the web returns you readily the following:</p>
<p>&#8220;Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data for 1979 and 1995 and controlling for education, experience, personal characteristics, parental status, city and region, occupation, industry, government employment, and part-time status, Yale University economics professor Joseph G. Altonji and the United States Secretary of Commerce Rebecca M. Blank found that only about 27% of the gender wage gap in each year is explained by differences in such characteristics.[20]&#8221;<br />
So 27% of 23%  (100-77%) gives about 6% that means that 17% difference in earnings remain unexplained by the wisdom of the author.<br />
One may have objections to the above findings, but they nevertheless sound more convincing than the excuses given lightly by the author with the hand in  his pocket.<br />
Even if one is to stick to the 77% figure wirhout reservations, questions could be asked: why women are under educated, why are they forced to take less paid jobs, why are they punished for having children etc.</p>
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		<title>By: WeroInNM</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5403364</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WeroInNM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brainwashing in America: ‘WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”! (Part 3)
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-why-few-dare-call-it-conspiracy-part-3
“Food For Thought”
Hello: When Are Americans Going To Wake Up-God Bless America!
Semper Fi!
Jake]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brainwashing in America: ‘WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”! (Part 3)<br />
<a href="http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-why-few-dare-call-it-conspiracy-part-3" rel="nofollow">http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-why-few-dare-call-it-conspiracy-part-3</a><br />
“Food For Thought”<br />
Hello: When Are Americans Going To Wake Up-God Bless America!<br />
Semper Fi!<br />
Jake</p>
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		<title>By: Consider</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Consider]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you prefer burning of witches.
That&#039;s Christian.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps you prefer burning of witches.<br />
That&#8217;s Christian.</p>
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		<title>By: nomoretraitors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nomoretraitors]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s a pagan, not a Christian. ritual. And we have plenty of human sacrifices, not on top of pyramids, but in abortion clinics across the nation]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s a pagan, not a Christian. ritual. And we have plenty of human sacrifices, not on top of pyramids, but in abortion clinics across the nation</p>
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		<title>By: Rdlake</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rdlake]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A government program from the Progressives like Welfare where 47% of Americans are on some form of gov. assistance. Government can&#039;t do anything cost effective or efficiently. Over $200 billion wasted annually in fraud, abuse &amp; duplication. This 1/5 of our population that happen to be poor, we&#039;ve been helping for 50 years. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A government program from the Progressives like Welfare where 47% of Americans are on some form of gov. assistance. Government can&#8217;t do anything cost effective or efficiently. Over $200 billion wasted annually in fraud, abuse &amp; duplication. This 1/5 of our population that happen to be poor, we&#8217;ve been helping for 50 years. </p>
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		<title>By: Hank Rearden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Rearden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 05:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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		<title>By: Douglas J. Bender</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5402555</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas J. Bender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s unfair that Al Gore makes so much more than me.  How can I make him &quot;spread his wealth around&quot; so that I get a goodly portion of it?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s unfair that Al Gore makes so much more than me.  How can I make him &#8220;spread his wealth around&#8221; so that I get a goodly portion of it?</p>
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		<title>By: Douglas J. Bender</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-paradigms-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5402553</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas J. Bender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Math.  And it looks like you do, too.  :-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Math.  And it looks like you do, too.  <img src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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