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posted April 07, 2011 02:17 AM |
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At this point it becomes not easy to raise taxes because of simple math. If they raise taxes much more, I'll be paying out more than I take in.
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Raelag84
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posted April 07, 2011 02:18 AM |
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Republicans haven't had a good tract record for being fiscally responsible for quite some time. They make a few program cuts and then have huge tax cuts that overcompensate for it. Though it's not entirely their fault, since they aren't able to cut everything they wish they could in their plans. Some of the programs are able to survive. The nature of the problem, while intricate in detail, is rather simple in the wider picture, and is pretty much the basis for any debt situation in a democracy: it's easy to have support to add programs, and it's easy to have support to cut taxes, but it's not easy to have support to raise taxes and it's not easy to have support to cut programs. The reason being that the potential positive effects of the later two are not easily visible.
Very true, but there is one little thing that everyone has been forgeting so far.
Does anyone remember the last republican who acctully was acctully true to the his conservitive ideas? Does anyone remember that last republican president who built a budget surplus and does anyone remember the results?
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shyranis
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posted April 07, 2011 06:20 AM |
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At this point it becomes not easy to raise taxes because of simple math. If they raise taxes much more, I'll be paying out more than I take in.
Do you make over 250k per year?
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Elodin
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posted April 14, 2011 12:26 AM |
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Edited by Elodin at 00:28, 14 Apr 2011.
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Raelag84
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posted April 14, 2011 06:14 AM |
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Cartoon is not going to prove your point buddy. It's funny though.
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gnomes2169
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posted April 14, 2011 06:17 AM |
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Would it be strange if I said that this cartoon does nothing to my political opinion at all except make it more firm?
Because this cartoon is actually rather childish.
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Shyranis
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posted April 16, 2011 01:05 AM |
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Sometimes childish can be funny.
And it is true that Obama is trying to tack onto the budget cutting vibe going on... he wouldn't have to if he just kept his campaign promised and made the needed defense cuts, shut down the illegal american run foreign prisons and scrapped the Patriot act (which wastes a ton of taxpayer money paying extra hours to tens of thousands of barely qualified people to listen to you on the phone and read your blog/forum posts and emails).
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gnomes2169
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posted April 16, 2011 03:06 AM |
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Remember that every one of those acts you listed have to go through congress. There, one half will vote for your idea (Well, maybe a little less now) and the other half will shoot it down before you open your mouth, no matter how much sense it makes.
I hate all politics and all politicians. 
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