During the last half? The Democrats controlled the house for 40 years straight, including the entirety of Reagan and Bush Sr.'s presidencies.I do recall the house was controlled by Dems in the last half of Reagans presidency.
During the last half? The Democrats controlled the house for 40 years straight, including the entirety of Reagan and Bush Sr.'s presidencies.I do recall the house was controlled by Dems in the last half of Reagans presidency.
Reagan raised taxes where it helped, not simply because "the rich need to pay their fair share" bull****. Conservatives aren't against raising a tax when it makes good business sense to do so. Reagan also lowered many other taxes. Reagan's goal was to increase revenue, which he did, not play identity politics. Also, yes, Reagan spent a lot of money on viable infrastructure projects. Reagan's goal was to invest in the people, not nationalize industry as is Obama's stated goal. So far both Bush and Obama have wasted all the TRAP and Stimulus money they've been given. Also, yes, Reagan signed an amnesty bill, what you forget is what Reagan was supposed to get in return for amnesty from that bill, which the Left never delivered on, which is why the Left get's so much resistance on immigration policy today. You folks have lied time and time again, saying you'll deliver on a compromise, but you never do, so imo no more deals, no more compromises, nothing.
Way to forget the whole story, but then you folks never did operate on honesty to begin with :2wave:
Then you are for the confiscation of private property. A "wealth tax" is just that, and not just unconstitutional, but communist in nature.
During the last half? The Democrats controlled the house for 40 years straight, including the entirety of Reagan and Bush Sr.'s presidencies.
I don't support Republicrats, I support Conservatives. The GOP of today is mostly composed of Liberals. I'll vote for Conservative Democrat over any of the Liberals in the GOP any day.
Everyone that thinks that simply raising federal taxation, from 17% of GDP to 18% of GDP, will "fix" the federal defict ignores the fact that the federal gov't now spends 24% of GDP and that spending is headed sharply up as more boomers retire and PPACA kicks in.
Just what, in our Constitution, allows for the federal gov't to simply take property from private citizens and "pay themselves back" for money borrowed and spent?
But we at least are going in the right direction. We need to end the Republican idea that deficits don't matter if they come from tax cuts.
Don't blame me. It was a Republicans idea. The one who cut taxes on the wealthy way back in the 80's, he now believes he made a huge mistake and the wealth tax is the only way to fix it. But David Stockton is a Republican and he is obssesed with the debt that the low tax rates ran up. Do you agree with him that we need to pay off the debt?
Yes, but by decreasing the massive federal spending and letting GDP growth raise the revenue "naturally". Start by cutting out DOEd, foreign aid, crony capitalism, PPACA and decreasing crippling regulations, military spending and social welfare (income redistribution) programs. Entitlement reform is a must as well, but that can wait until we get a real president.
Name me one industrialized nation that runs their Govt. on revenue of less than 15% of GDP. These low tax rates are unsustainable.
so the middle class never would have happened unless the idiotic 16th amendment was passed
Financial woe, and extended threat of collapse is exactly what he wants. He, and his disciples hate the wealthy, they think it is unfair that free people succeed at their own rate, and path. And the cynical thing is that Obama, and his progressive allies in congress, know full well what Emmanuel let slip early on, and that is the canard about not letting a good crisis go to waste....In that vein, he will not only call everything a crisis, but extend that which is critical to invent more crisis' in order to rule like a dictator.
I sure hope America comes to it's senses and finds a way to remove this mans power, and these progressives from office.
You omit state, county and city taxes and the fact that Obama has decreased federal revenue by creating the SS "contribution holiday" (yet more borrowing from future generations). Many spend far less than 35% of GDP, yet have far higher standards of living to show for it. Name me one industrialized nation that spends even half of our "defense" budget as % of GDP.
No it was Mitch McConnels idea and as usual any idea the Republicans have that Obama likes they are against it. The debt ceiling has nothing to do with new spending. One would think that has been made real clear. However, knuckle draggers cant get the concept.
Name me one industrialized nation that runs their Govt. on revenue of less than 15% of GDP. These low tax rates are unsustainable.
All I could think of after watching Bill Whittle was Spiro Agnews comment....You might like this guy. He really gets it. Bill Whittle: Why we need an army of serious people » The Right Scoop -
"The cost of closing Social Security’s 75-year shortfall is equal to the revenue lost from the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2% of Americans."
Social Security FAQ | Strengthen Social Security
What I was asking though was how do you propose the country repay the money it owes to SS? Or, do you think we should just abandon our financial obligations for the first time in the history of this country? And what effect do you think that would have on the country's credit rating?
All I could think of after watching Bill Whittle was Spiro Agnews comment....
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club -- the "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history."
Nice try. The "knuckle draggers" are paying all the damn taxes, which you love, and your POS president is deliberately trying to destroy the country's economic system. Not exactly sure what he wants to replace it with, but I'm sure it'll be just grand.
It's sheer lunacy to claim the "knuckle draggers" are paying "all" of the taxes. I do not fit taraanne's definition of "knuckle dragger" and yet I pay taxes. And I am certainly not the only tax-paying non-knuckle dragger.Nice try. The "knuckle draggers" are paying all the damn taxes, which you love, and your POS president is deliberately trying to destroy the country's economic system. Not exactly sure what he wants to replace it with, but I'm sure it'll be just grand.
It's sheer lunacy to claim the "knuckle draggers" are paying "all" of the taxes. I do not fit taraanne's definition of "knuckle dragger" and yet I pay taxes. And I am certainly not the only tax-paying non-knuckle dragger.
We need to stop believing that deficits don't matter if they come from tax cuts.
This is a perfect example of how progressives believe that the money a person makes belongs to the government, and that government only allows you to keep some of it....
It is NOT your money.