Lest we should ever forget, the Dems are salivating at a chance to use the Iraq campaign to raise taxes on even the poorest of Americans. Since we are still paying the surtax on telephone charges used to finance the Spanish –American War in 1898 109 years after the American victory over the Spanish maybe we cut spending and stimulate the economy before we raise taxes and slow the economy.
Just a thought, I could be wrong.
Just a thought, I could be wrong.
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If this war is as important as you claim, shouldn't we at the very least be willing to pay for it? - Nothing conservative about the way we are (not) paying for this war.
rf, allow me to retort.
first, Iraq is part of a larger war that will continue for many years to come, most likely the next two Presidents at least.
second, i agree, we are paying for the WoT like we do or don't pay for anything else, on credit.
third, we should start by setting some priorities. national defense, for example, seems far more important than say, early childhood education-which seems more like a state and local issue anyway. There's plenty of money to fund the war.
fourth, how about war bonds. i'll bet some Ivy League tax lawyer in Treasury can figure out a way to give a "deal to good to pass up" tax treatment to those special bonds.
also, frankly, we don't have go as far as the Treaty of Versailles but I'm all for just taking the oil from the Iranians as reparations for all they've cost us the last thirty years.
just my preliminary thoughts.
Again, no offense. But that is a pathetically non-conservative, partisan response to my valid point. Based on Romney's new ad, I suspect he and many real conservatives agree with me.
I agree we could cut plenty of spending. That and hold contractors accountable for the tax dollars they are spending in Iraq. By the way, there is $9 billion still unaccounted for in Iraq. That would be a start to help balance the budget and limit spending.
No need
Are you helping to find all that money the local Demos stole from CIETC?
no need
are you calling for the elimination of the 2 new state employees that serve as nanny's for the culver children?
are you calling for the elimination of the "official lawn mowers" that culver hired as state employees?
There's a few wasted dollars that could be saved.
Are you calling for the elimination of the $100 million dollar slush fund that Culver now gets to use to pay off his campaign funders?
Are you calling for the eliminiation of the "deal" culver gave the touchplay people?
There's some money the D's could save to spend on the "children".
hey...hillary just decided the government could give each newborn child $5000. That amounts to $20 billion dollars a year. How are you going to pay for that one?
You guys don't care about waste in spending. You can't waste ENOUGH money fast enough.
btw - now that the teachers are all making that big money they said they needed, did they finally figure out how to teach kids to read?
Wasn't that the reason our schools are failing? The teachers just didn't make enough money. We gave them money - did that turn on the teaching?
Where's the update on that?
rf and no need - is there anything a democrat will agree to with respect to eliminating or reducing something in the budget or is it just national defense that gets the knife from you guys?
We have plenty of money to pay for the war. We could reprioritize some of the nonsense that the democrats pass. What are you willing to give up?
How about we pay for the war with the tax dollars we shouldn't be spending on illegal aliens - for a start?
Anything? Anything?
Nope - you'll just cut national defense. We know the game.
So what is the reason a person should vote democrat?
Ted--Hate to be the spoil sport but financing the war on borrowed money is the road to financial ruin.
You tell him Quack Klein!
Quack Klein rEVOLution!
Anonymous--Trying to tell the GOP we've got to get real about economic realities. In unique postion to send that message because I experienced at first hand the kind of hyperinflation when borrow and spend economics gets so completely out hand entrenched governments get the boot.
Lived for a couple of years in Jerusalem in the mid-1970s when its hyperinflation brought down the seeming impregnable Labor government which had ruled from independence in 1948.
Like today's America, Labor's solution was throw money at every problem. From 1975 to 1977 the value of the lira, the shekel's predecessor, lost most of its value. With adverse unexpected long term the economy dollarized to include most real estate contracts.
Successive Likud governments got religion about budget discipline to the extent over the past year the dollar fell 25% against the shekel! That's brought howls from leasors and sellers with dollar denominated contracts!
The dollar's weakness against the shekel even affects me. I help my married daughter living in Israel. To compensate for an increasing unfavorable exchange rate increased what I send to them even.
Really lucked out earlier this helping them buy a home. Sent the money just before the dollar swooned almost 20% overnight.
Heard high level drug lords are demanding payment in euros!
In the White House I won't run the nation like Saturday night frat house keggers.
I say we can save money by having Steve King and all his paid family members pay their own insurance! Why should Steve get the benefits of gov't sponsored health care.
Someone will pay for the deficit spending done on the GOPs watch. it all depends on the date that China calls in the markers.
GOP Quislings sells us out to our enemies for a cheap buck. taitors not patriots!
Oh the only Butt boys around seemed to be old GOP boys!
Anon,
How classic. When you have no facts to support your argument, change topic or attack the messenger.
The bottom line is this. W inherited a record surplus. W and R controlled Congress squandered it real quick. With all the power for nearly full 6 years, how come W and the R Congress did not cut all the spending you are demanding to be cut? What was the problem? Now that D's are in charge and actually trying to fund their bills, W suddenly found the fiscal conservative religion. Tragically funny.
There is nothing easier for a politician than to give tax cuts and make no spending cuts. There is also nothing more gutless than that.
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