"Propaganda and Bullsh*t"--Ceejay1000
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/08/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates
According to the book, "Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates," the 1920s economic boom resulted from lowered tax rates. Tax rates dropped from 71% to 24%. Tax rates went up during the 1930s. Those increased rates slowed our economic recovery.
It wasn't till World War II that we got pulled out of a weak economy. The Reagan tax cuts lead to the longest economic boom since World War II. That was applicable during his time.
Daniel Mitchell, Ph.D., wrote that book. It came out in 1996.
He got his data from the Congressional Budget Office. What else does the CBO indicate?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/3/bush-tax-cuts-boosted-federal-revenue/
That we had a revenue increase as a result of the Bush tax cuts.
Our economy did better when people weren't chocked with high taxes.
",especially about the Iraq war. "What 1,500 years of democractic, cultural and technological progress ???" --Ceejay1000
Go on the internet, and use the following as a search string, "Western Civilization Timeline."
Pay particular attention to the timeline from 500 AD and on. The United States didn't invent democracy. Our democracy is based partly on Christian thought. We also inherited it from the Greeks and Romans.
The technological progress we've made, starting with the Dark Ages, we made because of Christianity. Christian Monks developed scientific thought to what it is today. Natural Law, which our Constitution is based on, evolved from Christian thought.
A book to read on that part is "How the Catholic Church Built the West," by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Ph.D.
Without Christian thought and philosophy, our Constitution and way of governing would've never came to be. We never would've made the technological progress that we achieved from the Dark Ages on.
The Moors didn't intend to stop with Iberia. They intended to sweep through Europe. The achievements they made were based on old western achievements.
The cold hard reality is that their tribal mentality would've halted our progress had they succeeded. Today, their tribal mentality would destroy the very environment that fosters technological and cultural development.
Radical Islamic Law doesn't authorize our Constitution. If the radical Muslims unite the world under the banner of Islam, we would have to reject our way of doing things. We'd have to reject our concepts of freedom and democracy, and embrace Islamic Holly Law.
We'd have to live strictly by the Qur'an. In order to do that, we'd have to return to the tribal existence of Muhammad's time. Hence, the death of 1,500 years of culture and progress.
Our civilization, our technology and accomplishments... we made because of what I explained here.
Western Civilization's rise to prominence was no accident. The very thing that caused us to do that goes against what the radical Islamists embrace.
You failed to see Saddam's Iraq as part of the asymmetrical threat. That shows that you don't understand Radical Muslim line of thinking.
In their line of thinking, there's only one nation... the Muslim Nation, also known as The House of God, or the House of Peace. Then there's the House of War, which encompasses the non Muslim world.
They don't recognize political boundaries. They divide the Muslim Nation into emirates and caliphates. These emirates and caliphates are equivalent to states and commonwealths in the United States.
"An enemy of an enemy is a friend!" -- Arab saying
Saddam was very much a threat to the United States that George Bush said he was.
This isn't propaganda or hype, but an analysis based on the facts that I've researched. It's also based on my interaction with Middle East people, as well as on what the radical Islamists have said.
Iraq, under Saddam, was part of an asymmetrical threat against Western Civilization.
