tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post5657678768598394018..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: So Much For May DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-79908006473667320132021-05-03T19:18:18.651-04:002021-05-03T19:18:18.651-04:00Exactly, Professor Rosser, but it's also almos...Exactly, Professor Rosser, but it's also almost funny how much the current political establishment in Poland is paranoid about Russia (although they are more justified in my opinion), though it is used heavily as a scare-tactic by the PiS government (or regime as it could probably more accurately be called).Frank (JMU alum)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12736679493013542998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-23096888537296228352021-05-03T13:46:57.381-04:002021-05-03T13:46:57.381-04:00Unkonwn,
After Clinton raised taxe rates without ...Unkonwn,<br /><br />After Clinton raised taxe rates without a single supporting voted from GOPs in Congress who ran on that and took control of Congress on that, falsely claiming his tax increase would cause a recession. It did not.<br /><br />Sorry, Unkown, but I really have no respect for people who claim the surpluses that appeared late in the 90s during the second Clinton term after he raised tax rates some years before were somehow due to the Reagan tax cuts. Just how far out of touch with reality are you? Do you also think the earth is flat or that Biden stole the presidential election from its true winner?rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-36946588967956111162021-05-02T22:21:01.314-04:002021-05-02T22:21:01.314-04:00Thing is though, the Federal Budget was balanced a...Thing is though, the Federal Budget was balanced about 15 years later during the Clinton administration and revenue has greatly increased.mortmainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04741056567111331885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-37576849244951077762021-05-02T22:12:44.121-04:002021-05-02T22:12:44.121-04:00It is kind of funny actually how paranoid Russia i...It is kind of funny actually how paranoid Russia is about Poland. But that is why, along with the westernizing threat of its Catholicism, associated with the Renaissance and western leadership in technological and economic matters.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-22143720827031469142021-05-02T19:14:34.316-04:002021-05-02T19:14:34.316-04:00Not many people know that the Polish-Lithuanian co...Not many people know that the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was able to occupy Moscow for just under 2 years. That tension, along with the fall of communism in the eastern bloc, still greatly affects the relationship between Poland, and to a lesser extent Lithuania, with Russia to this day.Frank (JMU alum)https://www.blogger.com/profile/12736679493013542998noreply@blogger.com