The notions of right-wingers do shock many among the normal, but that's a long way from fear. A politician's job meanwhile is to represent the interests of his or her constituents. Those from Maine will try to advance conditions in the lobster industry, those from the Orlando area will have special concerns for tourism, and the Kansas ones will be all about farming. In addition of course, many groups have organized into publcity and lobbying groups to further their own interests and urge Congress to adopt their policy ideas -- the National Association of Realtors, the National Association of Manufacturers, the US Chamber of Commerce, the list goes on and on. But the only group that actually sought to lobby on behalf of the poor was ACORN, and of course, vindictive right-wingers mounted a vicious smear campaign agianst them, eventually hiring some amoral goofball to produce and then doctor videotapes to use in a completely phony effort to wipe them off the map. Your notion that politicians are being either elected or dictated to by welfare recipients is in such light even more appallingly vapid that the usual right-wing bit of shock therapy.
So go occupy something of theirs. Let them know how you feel.
No, it's based on keeping people from being born on third base and thinking they hit a triple. There is no room in this country for a permanent wealth and power class based on bloodline. Nobody is against passing the fruits of one's actual labor on to the next generation. We all do that. But how many kids deserve to have tens or hundreds of million stuffed in their pockets before they so much as walk out the door? None, that's how many.
It was and is the same issue, as the point that you proposed to object to was over the causitive linkage between boneheaded laissez-faire free-market capitalism and the credit crisis that resulted from it.
Did you mean clearLY enough?
Your brain is hardwired agaisnt recognizing that if post offices and post roads were not paid for exclusively by the wealthy and well-educated, but it was only they who benefitted from them, a transfer of wealth must have occurred??? That would put you into a very bad situation indeed.
The statements are supported by all of human history and anthrpology. The record will show only that someone was unwilling to lift even a single finger for the purpose of his own edification. He expected it all to be spoon-fed to him, otherwise prefering to remain obdurately mired in total ignorance of the relevant facts and history.
Maybe we could just pay as much as we used to. It was 22-23% of GDP during the Reagan administration. Now it's 14-15%
Good point. Maybe the federal burden is currently too large to do this. It would seem silly for a state to belong to a union if the cost of membership led to state bankruptcy. I'll have to rethink if my original suggestion is a valid idea, given the crushing federal revenue requirements.
MoSurveyor has made me rethink the whole idea. I don't want the burden of supporting the federal government to bankrupt the states. That would be a bad idea.
It's not about bookkeeping, it's about economics, and particularly the kind that Bush used that ended up destroying the economy. There was no reset button to push as of January 20, 2009. Bush got to start with the economy at a historical high point and buried it anyway. Obama had to start with the economy at a historical low point and has managed to resurect it anyway. The budgetary impacts of revenues lost to the Great Bush Recession and emergency expenditures made necessary by it are all on Bush's Visa card and always will be. Nobody else helped him create the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. He did it all by himself.
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you constantly bray that others need to pay more taxes
This side of the Garden of Eden, I just don't see such a state of affairs existing. The best that can be hoped for is to convince enough people that taking other people's stuff is wrong that they can prevail against those predisposed to loot for a living. It's a tough battle, as looting always has a certain appeal to certain people.
when you start paying the same rates I do and when you start coughing up as much money as I do maybe you will have some standing to tell me how LOW rates are.