Linking President Obama with Bill Ayers is the lowest form of demagoguery. It shows that you don't have a sound argument. At least Bill Ayers was trying to stop an unjustified war against the innocent people of southeast Asia. Given your interest in cost-benefit analysis, Dan, why don't you compare the relatively trivial actions of Ayers and his colleagues against the tens of thousands of Americans who died in Indochina?

Ridiculous. Unregulated and unbridled capitalism put us in a giant hole. And now you have the nerve to complain that it's taking more than a couple of years for Obama to get us out of the mess created by Bush and other right-wing ideologues.

I don't care whether you call yourself a libertarian, a conservative, a classical liberal, or a small-government Republican. If you don't feel any kinship with your neighbors and aren't willing to pay a reasonable level of tax to make sure others aren't hungry, cold, poor, or sick, then you have serious psychological problems.

Congratulations to Mr. Laffer for supporting fairness, even if he's only on the right side because someone gave him money. States need to have rights over their citizens in order to function properly. And this sales tax plan is the only way to enforce the tax on out-of-state purchases. What's wrong with that?

Just like everyone else, I don't like the corruption in the tax code. But I'm against tax reform because you wingers want to use it as a vehicle for cutting tax rates on the rich. Those with lots of money have benefited the most from society and the should pay the most.

Do you really expect people to accept your analysis over all the nonpartisan experts at GAO, Treasury, JCT, etc? Particularly when you're funded by the Koch brothers?

Such a silly post. You can't draw conclusions by looking at a handful of items that comprise .0000001 % of the budget. Besides, they probably filmed 50 people before finding a few that would blindly regurgitate anti-government ideology.

I don't care whether Cyprus' tax haven policies were to blame for the financial crisis. Those policies are bad regardless. We should be like Norway and publicly post data on how much tax everyone pays. That's the best way of making sure that the rich can't shirk their responsibilities.

The economy grew under Reagan because of Keynesianism. The "Gipper" gave a blank check to the Pentagon, which was dangerous for the world, but it did stimulate the American economy. But not Republicans and conservatives oppose stimulus, even though they do it when they're in power.

When you look at individual cases, you learn that disability is necessary. My cousin lost her job a couple of years ago and the only positions she could find barely paid her half of what she used to earn. She got depressed, as would you and me in the same situation. Getting on disability was a godsend for her.