Comments on: Yielding Wealth Poll: Which Presidential Candidate Will Be Better For Your Personal Finances?

By: miranda

miranda — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:49:43 +0000

Thank you for your interesting analysis about small business and Obama, Kia!

By: Kia

Kia — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:38:14 +0000

small business tax dividend elimination under Obama helps small business. It helps expansion as business can be funded additionally by the owners which is better then keeping the profits on books. Today’s tax bracket for small businesses makes it very difficult to save for expansion past Dec.
A lot of start up c corps have issues with that. The other issue is really the profit tax it self which should be reduced at least if business is saving for expansion. I think even better then eliminating the small business tax dividend (which is nice on its own), the addition of reduction of profit tax would help small businesses expand.

By: miranda

miranda — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:35:53 +0000

update @tom I have spent some hours the last two days trying to find another comment from you. I have been unable to find it at all — nor have I found any record of it. I can only assume that there was some sort of server interruption on one end or the other. I invite you to re-submit if you like, or email your comment directly to me: mirandamarquit@gmail.com.

Please keep it reasonably civil and free of obscenity. (As we hope all comments to this blog are.)

By: miranda

miranda — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:44:07 +0000

@tom Please note that FrugalDad certainly is not pro-Obama. And if you check out others of my posts (notably this one: http://www.yieldingwealth.com/will-barack-obama-be-good-for-your-personal-finances/), not all comments are pro-Obama. I will check through the spam comments to see if maybe yours was inadvertently sent to the Akismet filter. Another thing to be aware of is that b5 has had server issues this week, and that may also contribute comments being lost.

I do not screen comments for political content, nor for those that do not agree with me. If you are a regular reader, you know that there are several comments on various posts, that express disagreement with me.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:07:57 +0000

I tried posting a comment a few days ago, but it was not published. Do you only publish pro Obama comments?

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:54:46 +0000

Reaganomics has run its course, and the standard of living in America has been going south for a while now. Free markets are not the cure for all economic ills. It time for a change.

By: miranda

miranda — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:37:39 +0000

I agree Jenny. A visualization is usually much better. Does the visualization change who you would vote for?

By: jennydecki

jennydecki — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:34:19 +0000

Thanks so much for posting the link to that chart, Jason. It really helps me understand more of the patterns involved.

Before seeing that I wasn’t really sure how I was going to be affected!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:41:17 +0000

@ Frugal Dad — I echo the sentiment of Miranda, thanks for weighing in.

But you’re a little off, unfortunately. I’ll try to help. Obama wants to let the Bush tax cuts expire, and he wants to level the taxation playing field. The only people who will see ANY tax increase whatsoever are the ones who make over $600,000 per year. Is that you? If not, in almost every other tax bracket Obama’s CUTTING taxes, and the tax cuts are greater than the one’s McCain pledges. In fact McCain pledges to decrease taxes the most for the people who make the most. So the ones that would be hurt the least (if at all) by tax increases, are actually getting cuts. I understand your sentiment about raising taxes in a business cycle, but what about cutting them in a time of war? That’s an incredibly dangerous thing to do when not managed properly. Bush screwed it up, and McCain is on track to do the same thing. This may help, from the Washington Post: http://tinyurl.com/5s4l7j

By: miranda

miranda — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:11:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Frugal Dad! I love your blog and I think you’re great, even though we disagree on a few things ;)

One of those things I disagree with is the idea that Obama is “raising” taxes. As far as he’s said so far, he’s just planning on letting the current Bush tax cuts (which McCain thought were a bad idea at the time) expire.