 get all this in the past but it's worth the effort.
Plenty Coups Jul 16, 2013
babedan-"Plenty Coups, we have tried it your way for many many years, Keep raising taxes until the people can't afford it anymore."
We have? Up until the recession, NC was a pretty successful state. Our overall taxes are average at best so I don't buy the unsubstantiated claim that the people "can't afford it anymore". The policies that favor the rich, like tax cuts that benefit them are what's hurting the middle class. The primary job creators in society are the middle class, they are the entrepreneurs that start small businesses that create jobs. Public education is the key for the opportunity for lower classes to also one day become rich. The well is never going to run dry with an average tax rate and in an environment that most publications rate pretty business friendly. Corporations aren't going to be attracted to states with high costs of living and poor quality of life as evidenced by the fact that CNBC has dropped us 8 spots in our business friendliness.
Plenty Coups Jul 16, 2013
babedan-"Show me where the Republicans are cutting education? It's not happening. another scare tactic by the liberals who only want a two tier society"
Are you kidding?? Take off the blinders. Teachers haven't had a raise since 2008. We're 48th in education spending and about to get worse. A system that keeps growing while receiving the same or less funding is taking cuts. And lastly republicans are also flat out cutting funds from public education. Try using facts next time.
babedan Jul 16, 2013
Show me where the Republicans are cutting education? It's not happening. another scare tactic by the liberals who only want a two tier society, The haves, or rich, and the have not's the poor. Keep rasing taxes and that is what you will have
babedan Jul 16, 2013
Plenty Coups, we have tried it your way for many many years, Keep raising taxes until the people can't afford it anymore. It's time to try something new. It's funny you keep complaing about the rich this and that but the more we raise taxes the rich just keep getting richer but you and I keep getting poorer, wonder why? Because they pass that cost to you and I. Give me more jobs, meaning more people are paying more taxes and guess what the problem is solved. But again, you blind and all you can think of is give me, give me, give me. You can only take so much before the well runs dry. Corporate taxes are passed onto the consumer no matter what you try to brainwash others into thinking. Too bad they don't teach common sense in college, instead they just take it away.
bill0 Jul 16, 2013
"billo once again your ignorance shows, If I own a company and have a choice of relocating to where there are no corporate taxes or paying 5% I'm going to choose to go to where I don't have to pay."
ugh - that has nothing to do with the price of the goods to consumers. Try to stay on topic.
And no, companies can't all just get up and move. Most economic activity is inherently local. eg you won't move your gas station from Raleigh to Alabama.
If republican want to be "pro-business", they need to be working on ways to keep a top notch (and educated) workforce in the most cost effective way. Companies that can move are looking value - ie well trained workers at the best prices. It doesn't do any good to be cheap without being effective.
Plenty Coups Jul 16, 2013
babedan-"billo once again your ignorance shows, If I own a company and have a choice of relocating to where there are no corporate taxes or paying 5% I'm going to choose to go to where I don't have to pay"
Once again, its not all about taxes which seems to be the single minded GOP mantra. A company that saves 2% on taxes but can't find any educated workers to operate their computer systems isn't going to care about the taxes. A company that saves 2% on taxes but pays 10% more in operating costs isn't going to care about the taxes. A company that saves 2% on taxes but has inadequate local sewer systems or road network isn't going to care about the 2% savings.
commonsense4 Jul 16, 2013
"This is a simple talking point. Republicans have been in power since the election of 2010. They haven't funded the schools and now they've got an excuse to not fund them in the future. I can here it now, "we just don't have enough revenue."
Nothing is simple to a Republican except taking 40 authors at their word from over 2,000 years ago and forcing everyone else to live with it in a nation that is supposed to have a separation of church and state.Ye obligatory Series 12 ratings and stuff thread. Post 'em here if you must...
[b]Ep 01: [/b]	8.2m	[b]Ep 02: [/b]	7.11m	[b]Ep 03: [/b]	6.39m [b]Ep 04: [/b]	6.43m	[b]Ep 05: [/b]	6.12m	[b]Ep 06: [/b]	5.77m [b]Ep 07: [/b]	5.93m	[b]Ep 08: [/b]	5.66m	[b]Ep 09: [/b]	5.07m	[b]Ep 10: [/b]	5.32m	[b]Res	: [/b] 5.15m [b]Series 11 Ratings Thread:[/b] [url]http://www.planetmondas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=6359[/url].
Thats really not great is it. Less than Resolution. 40% Less that Ep 01 Series 11. Certainly going on the overnights they've still got a lot of ground to make up to convince viewers this is Appointment TV once again. Personally although the episode looked awesome - the same thing can be said about most of Series 11 - its the content that is still weak. Especially Jodies interpretation of the Doctor and two of the three 'Fam' Members who are very weak indeed.
It'll be very interesting to see if there is any growth at all in overnight viewing figures as the series progresses. Very interesting indeed.
Overall I think Chibnall and his writing crew have -'mended' a show that was not broken in the first place - Hence certainly the steady lowering of the overnights.
Looking forward to see what overnight ratings the other 9 episodes generate. Especially The Cybermen story.
Does anyone know what the other channels achieved at the same time?
Or what the excellent Dracula achieved. (Scared the bejesus out of me last night. First time in ages I've had images from a TV Show playing back in my mind as I settled down for a nights sleep).
I think the pattern suggests that it will keep going down. Also think they will be lucky if things like the Cybermen even get them back up to or maintain the starting high of 4:88m. Doubt very much that it would ever actually go above that this season.
The 90-minute Hartswood Films drama, the first of three parts, was watched by an audience of 3.6M between 9PM and 10.30PM on BBC One, according to BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv.
Billed as the most ambitious episode of Doctor Who ever, its overnight audience was Whittaker’s lowest yet as the Tardis-travelling Time Lord. It was also well down on her debut in season 11, which drew 8.2M viewers in October 2018.
It was not all bad news for Whittaker, however. Her second season opener beat Peter Capaldi’s equivalent episode, which was seen 4.6M in September 2015.
I find that hard to believe somehow. Can anyone confirm Peter's overnight's? This would not be the first time they have praised Whittaker at the expense of poor Peter.
Before blame is being directed at Jodie and the production, it is also worth remembering the BBC behaved like massive a******** during the recent UK election. So there could be a "Boycott the BBC" action, not yet "unionised" going on.
A low figure for Doctor Who (far lower than it deserved, Spyfall is a huge step up) could be expected. But a lower figure as well for big modern up to date but in an historical setting brand brand new Dracula?
Unpopular opinion in 3...2... Maybe people just had better things to do on New Year's Day and TV just wasn't on their priorities?
Be interesting to see how many licence fees get renewed this year. Couldn't come at a worse time for the show. It's showing huge signs of turning around, slap bang in the middle of viewers contempt for the BBC.
DW has always had a disproportionately large part of its audience view on catch up services like Iplayer, ratings always decline over a Doctor's era, and it's still above Capaldi's ratings in his final series. Plus, as Rubbernecking says there is a boycott thing going on, although I think the impact from that will be minimal. It really isn't as bad as people are making out.
Oh well, I can't argue with that.
Not his fault