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Tax cuts or balance budget

What is more important?

  • A balanced budget (no growth in debt)

    Votes: 39 88.6%
  • Tax cuts

    Votes: 5 11.4%

  • Total voters
    44
Question: when was the last time we had a balanced budget with tax rates at or lower than current levels?

the 1920's. far from just having a balanced budget, we were paying down debt.
 
Not at all... If we just stop trying to save the world from itself, we could eventually balance the budget.

ricksfolly

no we couldn't. we could literally cut 100% of the DOD and it wouldn't save us from the entitlement disaster that is looming.
 
Not at all... If we just stop trying to save the world from itself, we could eventually balance the budget.

ricksfolly

The people at the top of the food chain have no interest in balancing the budget their only interest is to continue the transfer of wealth from the middle class and the poor to the top 10% of the nation, 10 years of tax breaks have only allowed them to continue to bleed out the wealth from the middle class and poor of our country. To stop them we need to replace our present capitalistic economy with a democratic socialistic economy
 
I'm sure someone has posted this already but there was not a "both" choice.
 
I'm sure someone has posted this already but there was not a "both" choice.

Their was not a neither choice either, Do you have a problem with the Second Amendment? Tax cuts without incentives to re-invest the cuts into the American economy have not worked and will not in the future, if you think they will kindly tell me what will the new incentive for business investment be? Balancing the budget without job creation for "American" workers is nothing more then putting a band aid on a major wound the results will be more job cuts further reducing revenues and requiring more job cuts, the cycle will continue until the life blood of our economy has been totally drained
 
What we have to do to save our economy is to change from a capitalistic economy to a socialistic economy, at some point we have to just accept the fact that what we are and have been doing does not work and the only way to survive is to make a drastic change

that's really silly

socialism is destroying this nation
 
that's really silly

socialism is destroying this nation

When you look at historical trends it becomes quite obvious that the conservative party has increased our deficit every time they are in power and now aided by the far right tea baggers are trying to destroy the middle class worker by transferring the countries wealth to the rich. Drastic times call for drastic measures we need to nationalize companies that are critical to our economic survival
 
When you look at historical trends it becomes quite obvious that the conservative party has increased our deficit every time they are in power and now aided by the far right tea baggers are trying to destroy the middle class worker by transferring the countries wealth to the rich. Drastic times call for drastic measures we need to nationalize companies that are critical to our economic survival

Would you like to compare Bush to Obama?
 
no we couldn't. we could literally cut 100% of the DOD and it wouldn't save us from the entitlement disaster that is looming.

At current revenues, we could cut all discretionary spending (including ALL of DOD) and barely run a surplus.
We need to change SS and Medicare. It's going to happen sooner or later. If we do it later, it won't exist.

On second thought, let's leave it the way it is. Maybe even lower FICA to 2%. And raise benefits :)
 
I'm sure someone has posted this already but there was not a "both" choice.

It's a push-poll with options selected to ensure those selecting the sensible option will be in the minority. Spending cuts weren't listed because everyone knows the deficit problem is a spending problem, not a tax problem.
 
It's a push-poll with options selected to ensure those selecting the sensible option will be in the minority. Spending cuts weren't listed because everyone knows the deficit problem is a spending problem, not a tax problem.

You are right we are spending too much on tax cuts, tax loop holes and tax incentives for corporations that relocate overseas
 
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