what presidential candidates are best for stocks?

[fearme]

stock newbie here needs to know who to vote for

[pig4bill]

The Dems want to raise capital gains rates and change the dividends tax rates back to what they were. So the not only will the incentive to buy stocks be lessened, but there will be less money to invest as well. There will be less incentive for companies to pay dividends, and less money left over by dividend receivers to reinvest.

[spider]

The one that doesn't want to continue to spend $7 or $8 billion per month keeping troops in Iraq on top of whatever you think is the monetary cost of lost lives & health, plus the value of the associated negative branding of the US internationally.

[maxtower]

Easy, it's Ron Paul.

[pig4bill]

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The one that doesn't want to continue to spend $7 or $8 billion per month keeping troops in Iraq on top of whatever you think is the monetary cost of lost lives & health, plus the value of the associated negative branding of the US internationally.

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Yeah, that's really had a killer effect on the stock market the last few years.

[irunnotgood]

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The one that doesn't want to continue to spend $7 or $8 billion per month keeping troops in Iraq on top of whatever you think is the monetary cost of lost lives & health, plus the value of the associated negative branding of the US internationally.

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Yeah, that's really had a killer effect on the stock market the last few years.

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Look where the value of your dollar has gone.

[spider]

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The one that doesn't want to continue to spend $7 or $8 billion per month keeping troops in Iraq on top of whatever you think is the monetary cost of lost lives & health, plus the value of the associated negative branding of the US internationally.

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Yeah, that's really had a killer effect on the stock market the last few years.

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Question is not whether stocks have done well, it's whether they would be doing better or worse w/o the Iraq invasion.

So what do you think? W/o the invasion would stocks be higher or lower than currently?

[pig4bill]

Moot point. Had a Dem won the election we wouldn't have gotten the tax breaks that stimulated the market and economy.

There's also no telling how many more attacks would have occurred if there were no war. They would certainly have had a demoralizing effect on the market and economy.

[GoodCallYouWin]

This guy :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8

[spider]

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Moot point. Had a Dem won the election we wouldn't have gotten the tax breaks that stimulated the market and economy.

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Hard to say what the exact policy would have been. Note that Clinton signed the 1997 tax cut (TRA). Also very hard to attribute general economic performance solely to some tax cut or tax increase. Note for example that the 90s boom was preceded by (quite mild, despite the idiotic rhetoric) tax increases signed by Bush 1 & Clinton (OBRA91 & 93).

One thing we can say is that the tax increases of 91 & 93 were necessary because the Reagan tax cuts produced too large of a deficit/debt. Same thing with the current tax cuts -- debt will eventually get too high if we stick with current policies, so within a few years we'll have to either raise revenue or cut spending.

If you want to disagree with the last point, be sure to tell me why a Republican Congress & Republican President scheduled the tax cuts to expire after 2010.