mclaassen
I am all for cutting taxes and reducing the size of the Federal government. However, that is not what the Republicans in Congress want to do. They want (and have been) to expand government and use debt...
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I AGREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally someone points out the elephant in the room!
View ArticleEdward
Of course, not a single trickle down douche mentions cutting defense spending THE elephant in the room. It's always cut taxes and cut social programs. May they reincarnate in Bangladesh. Trickle down...
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How about we just banish the rich from our land and start over? Let's use them to colonize a nice rocky little corner of Afghanistan. They can even have their shit.We'll drop it to them from about...
View ArticleBill
Sorry, wrong answer. Cut spending first, and then cut taxes, not the other way around. We have tried for decades to cut taxes in an attempt to "starve the beast", and the result is that government is...
View ArticleWN
The whole part about state/local decision falls flat when people move freely away from the consequences of their decisions. People live somewhere with good schools. Then, the second the kids turn 18,...
View ArticleAdam Smith
@Henry Blodget "...despite the fact that they're already lower than they have been in decades and lower than they are in most other developed countries." This statement is nonsense Henry. You need to...
View ArticleOneMinuteMBA
Of course it's not quite that simple. Consistency of regulation across state lines is good for commerce and general predictability; if the federal role is reduced and the states become, in effect, more...
View ArticleNick
It does make sense to have a diversity of government bureaucracy, taxes, and living conditions in the country, so that people can choose how to live within their own country by moving from one state to...
View ArticleAdam Smith
@Edward - Uh, Edward, you may want to ask your guy Barack O and your other guy Timmy G then why they believe so heartily in trickle down stimulus? And why if you think what you call "trickle down"...
View Articlejoebaggadonuts
The elephant in the room is the Republican party hacksters, observer1. This clown wants to compare a nation with no information infrastructure more advanced than a guy on a horse and sail boats on the...
View Articleradix
If what the author claims is what the framers wanted then why didn't they just right it into the constitution itself? Because the framers weren't of a single mind on the issue that's why, anyone who...
View ArticleProudLiberal
Try explaining to a starving child that he/she can't have dinner because some hedge fund billionaire thinks his taxes are too high. Try telling a struggling single mother of five that she should just...
View ArticleChicago Style Politics
I'm a trickle-down "douche", and I favor cutting defense spending. I'm not alone. I'd like to see the fed gov cut to the bone, doing little more than defending the borders. Which, ironically, is about...
View ArticleBlago
I'm sort of conservative - but cutting defense spending is OK by me - especially given that our military spends so much time these days bogged down in Asian land wars. I'd say focus on the reducing...
View ArticleEdward
So let me see, cut to the bone? No more firefighters, roads, teachers, social services for the needy who have falling through the cracks etc..Basically you just want spending on a police state, the...
View ArticleChicago Style Politics
Wouldn't be an issue if people had to pay for the services they use, kinda like the post office. Under your preferred wealth-redistribution style of paying for government services, yes, this is a problem.
View ArticleJeff
That's how it used to work. Clinton cut spending, balanced budgets and that allowed for Bush II to reasonably cut taxes, returning the surplus to the citizens. Unfortunately it didn't go to the...
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