http://iowaindependent.com/10977/culver-defends-his-budget-balancing-act Iowa politics, news and commentary Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:06:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://iowaindependent.com/10977/culver-defends-his-budget-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-24651 daddysteve Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:04:14 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=10977#comment-24651 Cutting taxes and government spending will hurt the economy? What??? I'm hardly a Chet Culver fan but at least he understands Econ 101.If losing some government employees is going to seriously affect the economy then there are too many govt' employees. As hard-hearted as it may sound, these workers don't create wealth,their paychecks come from someone who did. Taxes and spending should have been cut long ago when we began losing our industrial base but the only tax cuts were for moving the jobs overseas. Better late than never but probably already too late. Cutting taxes and government spending will hurt the economy? What??? I'm hardly a Chet Culver fan but at least he understands Econ 101.If losing some government employees is going to seriously affect the economy then there are too many govt' employees. As hard-hearted as it may sound, these workers don't create wealth,their paychecks come from someone who did. Taxes and spending should have been cut long ago when we began losing our industrial base but the only tax cuts were for moving the jobs overseas. Better late than never but probably already too late.

]]> http://iowaindependent.com/10977/culver-defends-his-budget-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-19616 daddysteve Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:04:14 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=10977#comment-19616 Cutting taxes and government spending will hurt the economy? What??? I'm hardly a Chet Culver fan but at least he understands Econ 101.If losing some government employees is going to seriously affect the economy then there are too many govt' employees. As hard-hearted as it may sound, these workers don't create wealth,their paychecks come from someone who did. Taxes and spending should have been cut long ago when we began losing our industrial base but the only tax cuts were for moving the jobs overseas. Better late than never but probably already too late. Cutting taxes and government spending will hurt the economy? What??? I'm hardly a Chet Culver fan but at least he understands Econ 101.If losing some government employees is going to seriously affect the economy then there are too many govt' employees. As hard-hearted as it may sound, these workers don't create wealth,their paychecks come from someone who did. Taxes and spending should have been cut long ago when we began losing our industrial base but the only tax cuts were for moving the jobs overseas. Better late than never but probably already too late.

]]> http://iowaindependent.com/10977/culver-defends-his-budget-balancing-act/comment-page-1#comment-15231 daddysteve Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:04:14 +0000 http://iowaindependent.com/?p=10977#comment-15231 Cutting taxes and government spending will hurt the economy? What??? I'm hardly a Chet Culver fan but at least he understands Econ 101.If losing some government employees is going to seriously affect the economy then there are too many govt' employees. As hard-hearted as it may sound, these workers don't create wealth,their paychecks come from someone who did. Taxes and spending should have been cut long ago when we began losing our industrial base but the only tax cuts were for moving the jobs overseas. Better late than never but probably already too late. Cutting taxes and government spending will hurt the economy? What??? I'm hardly a Chet Culver fan but at least he understands Econ 101.If losing some government employees is going to seriously affect the economy then there are too many govt' employees. As hard-hearted as it may sound, these workers don't create wealth,their paychecks come from someone who did. Taxes and spending should have been cut long ago when we began losing our industrial base but the only tax cuts were for moving the jobs overseas. Better late than never but probably already too late.

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