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Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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ZoeZoeBee wrote: post #61
glesica wrote: post #59

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But have any Republican elected officials actually put these policies into action? I mean, let's take Scott Walker. What has he done in Wisconsin? Seems like a lot of giveaways to the wealthy and not much else. This despite having a pretty solid mandate as mandates go these days (given that he survived a recall). There are lots of reasonable-sounding proposals on various topics on both sides of the aisle (mostly from…

To your point, what has the Obama administration done when it comes to these issues while it has had power, especially considering the pretty strong mandate he had with control of both houses and a super majority in the Senate. The important thing is what happens when a party actually gets into government....

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Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by guelo »

rayiner wrote: post #70
glesica wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But have any Republican elected officials actually put these policies into action? I mean, let's take Scott Walker. What has he done in Wisconsin? Seems like a lot of giveaways to the wealthy and not much else. This despite having a pretty solid mandate as mandates go these days (given that he survived a recall). There are lots of reasonable-sounding proposals on various topics on both sides of the aisle (mostly from…

Unemployment ticking under the national average, real budget reforms, and dismantling public unions. There are a lot of blue states that could use a Scott Walker.

> Unemployment ticking under the national average

Wisconsin's unemployment has been lower than the national average since before Walker took office.

> dismantling public unions

Except police and fire unions because it was more a political attack on the left's power base than a principled stand.

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by tptacek »

guelo wrote: post #72
rayiner wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unemployment ticking under the national average, real budget reforms, and dismantling public unions. There are a lot of blue states that could use a Scott Walker.

> Unemployment ticking under the national average Wisconsin's unemployment has been lower than the national average since before Walker took office. > dismantling public unions Except police and fire unions because it was more a political attack on the left's power base than a principled stand.

If that's what it was, why did he publicly back expanding Act 10 to hit police and fire unions on the eve of his Presidential campaign announcement? You think WI isn't a swing state, and he won't need every cop in the state to GOTV for him?

Something else I hate about political arguments on HN: they put me in a position where I might actually have to speak up in defense of Scott Walker. Blech.

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by ZoeZoeBee »

infinite8s wrote: post #68
ZoeZoeBee wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To your point, what has the Obama administration done when it comes to these issues while it has had power, especially considering the pretty strong mandate he had with control of both houses and a super majority in the Senate. The important thing is what happens when a party actually gets into government....

He used up most of his mandate pushing through health care reform.

If you call a bill with all of the benefits up front and the costs hidden over years of implementation, bundled with the final takeover of student loans to help finance this, "reform". Then I wish he world have actually spent the capital you speak of on something that was less insurance company hand-out and wealth redistribution plan than it is healthcare reform

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by rayiner »

guelo wrote: post #72
rayiner wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unemployment ticking under the national average, real budget reforms, and dismantling public unions. There are a lot of blue states that could use a Scott Walker.

> Unemployment ticking under the national average Wisconsin's unemployment has been lower than the national average since before Walker took office. > dismantling public unions Except police and fire unions because it was more a political attack on the left's power base than a principled stand.

That's a fair point. But it's worth noting that Wisconsin's overall drop in unemployment rate since 2011 has slightly outpaced the drop in unemployment rate nationwide, which isn't a mean feat considering that neighboring Illinois has trailed the nation in the recovery.

As for the public unions--I'd like to see someone take on the police and fire unions too, but that probably has to wait for another day. Walker's motivations for those measures are irrelevant. Pension and healthcare liabilities are going to take state and municipal finances off a cliff. There's pretty much no hope of averting disaster, but states that don't deal with their public union problem will catabolize more of their GSP base before the inevitable crash happens.

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by protomyth »

ZoeZoeBee wrote: post #74
infinite8s wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He used up most of his mandate pushing through health care reform.

If you call a bill with all of the benefits up front and the costs hidden over years of implementation, bundled with the final takeover of student loans to help finance this, "reform". Then I wish he world have actually spent the capital you speak of on something that was less insurance company hand-out and wealth redistribution plan than it is healthcare reform

I often wonder if a much simpler bill that proposed a national catastrophic insurance program where the Feds pay 100% over $50,000 for a health incident would have been cheaper and tipped the actuarial tables to push insurance rates down?

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by th0waway »

infinite8s wrote: post #68
ZoeZoeBee wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To your point, what has the Obama administration done when it comes to these issues while it has had power, especially considering the pretty strong mandate he had with control of both houses and a super majority in the Senate. The important thing is what happens when a party actually gets into government....

He used up most of his mandate pushing through health care reform.

a bill that couldn't be read before it was passed... yeah, stellar work there

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by th0waway »

protomyth wrote: post #76
ZoeZoeBee wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you call a bill with all of the benefits up front and the costs hidden over years of implementation, bundled with the final takeover of student loans to help finance this, "reform". Then I wish he world have actually spent the capital you speak of on something that was less insurance company hand-out and wealth redistribution plan than it is healthcare reform

I often wonder if a much simpler bill that proposed a national catastrophic insurance program where the Feds pay 100% over $50,000 for a health incident would have been cheaper and tipped the actuarial tables to push insurance rates down?

couple that with reform in health-care billing and practice of medicine and I think we would have had a winner.

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by th0waway »

jerrac wrote: post #66
sdenton4 wrote: post #58

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Treating someone differently because they have a lower income than others is discriminatory. Wealth is not a protected class; unlike gender, race, and religion, we don't have a legal mandate to avoid making decisions based on a person's wealth. It's about everyone paying their fair share. What does 'fair' mean, though? Another 'fair' scheme might be that everyone pays the same raw amount (rather than a fixed proporti…

> What does 'fair' mean, though? Just remove 'fair' from the sentence. > a) The marginal utility of money is greatly increased when you don't have much of it. A 15% tax on $20k a year will lead to eviction, hunger and health problems, creating social ills that we'll need government programs to deal with. Or they'll just not pay the tax, so again with the prisons. And again, the overall tax needs to be increased to de…

my parents lived off of grits (we're from the South) for three weeks when they were first married. They made it, with no help from the government - and my Dad never finished school, and could barely read. A lot of people have expectations of success without work.

Re: Intuit Will Sell Off Quicken

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Post by kentnek »

pgrote wrote: post #13

What is a good, active cloud based personal finance software service? The ones I have come across look ok, but aren't actively developed.

I've been using Money Lover for a while now and it's actually really good! The UI is nice and intuitive, there're lots of features and it doesn't require bank connections to work.
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