"In my humble opinion, the US doesn't have a spending problem: it has an income problem. We're already paying the lowest income taxes since the 1950s, especially if one is very wealthy: religious fervor in reducing taxes even lower and thus creating an even larger deficit isn't the answer. Signing ideological pledges to avert a primary run-off demonstrates a further lack of maturity."
How about the Republican party being willing to drive the country off a cliff just so they can preserve tax breaks for the richest people in the country? Sure cuts in expenditures will help lessen our debt, but the country needs money. Taxes will provide that money. You and I don't like paying taxes, but the alternative is having a government that doesn't do anything for its citizens.
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Date: 2011-08-10 07:50 pm (UTC)How about the Republican party being willing to drive the country off a cliff just so they can preserve tax breaks for the richest people in the country? Sure cuts in expenditures will help lessen our debt, but the country needs money. Taxes will provide that money. You and I don't like paying taxes, but the alternative is having a government that doesn't do anything for its citizens.