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Farmerkev wrote:

JakeTheTall wrote:

Rush told me the Fair Tax was good, and Hannity did to.  Its got my vote !

I don't know if they have said anything about it or not but it came up over at 54 and I went to the web site.
It's interesting.

My more civil response is that while the tax code is a mess, cleaning it up won't fix anything else;  and there's quite a few more pressing issues for the President to get Congress to give their attention.

Farmerkev wrote:

JakeTheTall wrote:

Rush told me the Fair Tax was good, and Hannity did to.  Its got my vote !

I don't know if they have said anything about it or not but it came up over at 54 and I went to the web site.
It's interesting.

Cherry picking with Rush and Hannity?  Reagan's own Mr. Reagonomics Supply Sider, Bruce Bartlett, says it's hot wind bs.  Gotta love that this all was invented by Scientologists.

I'll take that as a "no comment" response then.  Thanks.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Get him to post that crazy Fox video again! That was a hoot.

wheeee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-4e_Yuokw

OTOH, maybe we can't not afford it.

The phones started ringing at the Timberholm Inn in Stowe, Vt., in April, as soon as lawmakers voted to override a gubernatorial veto and allow same-sex marriage in the state. "It doesn't go into effect till Sept. 1, but people are thinking ahead," says the inn's co-owner, Susan Barnes. "We've got two same-sex weddings booked for October." Those bookings are good news for Barnes, who says the gay-friendly inn takes in a "couple of thousand" dollars with every wedding it hosts. And they are part of the reason some same-sex-wedding advocates are now pointing out a new legalization angle: the economic payoff.

In the five years since legalizing same-sex marriage, Massachusetts has gained $111 million in spending from gay weddings, according to a new study published by UCLA's Williams Institute, which studies sexual-orientation law and public policy. "That's money buying flowers, hotels, caterers, hiring a band—all the things that go into a wedding," explains M. V. Lee Badgett, a coauthor of the study.

Typically, same-sex couples spent about $7,400 per wedding, says Badgett, an economist who is also director of UMass Amherst's Center for Public Policy & Administration, and one in 10 couples spent more than $20,000. And then there were the wedding guests: "We estimated that each same-sex couple was associated with $1,600 in hotel-occupancy tax revenue," she says.

Promises of a gay-wedding payoff are hardly new: back in 2004, a U.S. Congressional Budget Office analysis predicted that the federal government would benefit by nearly $1 billion in increased tax revenue each year if same-sex marriages were legalized in all 50 states and recognized by the federal government.

Gay-onomics and the Marriage Debate

Gayonomics... I'll have to remember that one.