Reply | Edit | DeleteReply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Friday, November 30, 2007What does income have to do with ability to pay? If a person makes a million a year, but has $1.1 million in debts and expenses he has LESS ability to pay than someone who makes $20,000 a year but only $10,000 in debts and expenses. <BR
Reply By: Island DogPosted: Friday, November 30, 2007 It will not come from spending cuts given all the other issues we face. It certainly can. You do not know wha
Reply By: Island DogPosted: Friday, November 30, 2007 Ability to pay MUST be part of any tax. . Gene, if people can afford iPo
Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Friday, November 30, 2007Good work, Col! It's nice to see you acknowledging the problem goes beyond George W. I have said in the past where the debt came from. The issue is how to come up with the CASH to repay the debt. It will not come from spending cuts given
I suggest we CUT the interest in the budget from about $500 Billion per year to back where it was in 1981 which was $50 Billion. How did our spending on interest jump by 10 times over the past 30 years? Reagan is responsible for $150 Billion per year Bush 41 added about $50 Billion Clinton added about $50 Billion
Another point is the cost of the war. I have said we have borrowed about a trillion dollars. I have also said the total cost of the Iraq War will be about $2.4Trillion. The difference is that total coat and the cost so far. Bush only uses what we have spent to date. However the following costs that will be paid AFTER Bush leaves office are also because of the war: VA Costs $700 Billion Equipment $200 Billion Interest on th
Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Friday, November 30, 2007 We balance the budget, set aside about $200 Billion per year to pay down the debt, See, now THOSE parts of your plan I can agree w
I contacted the Fair Tax group and asked then if their proposal would be applied to services as well as things. Like Legal and medical services as an example. I could not get a straight answer. What about things like repairs or the many other services? There is talk about eliminating the IRS. WHO would collect all this tax and handle it from Millions of companies. If it were to apply to services, the problems of both collection and how would average
Reply By: Island DogPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007 Yes it will reduce the deficit! No it won't. You can't raise taxes on a select amount of Americans, than increase welfare programs at
You also fail to acknowledge there was no Surplus which was the justification Bush used for the tax cuts! HOW can you give something back when there is NOTHING to give back?
Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007 That is CRAP. Wow. SO even when I'm nice to you, you're going to treat me like I'm an ignorant child. Nice. Guess I learned MY l
Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007The wealthy should never have been given a tax cut because the SURPLUS that was used by Bush to justify the tax cuts DID NOT EXIST. Thanks for pointing out another Clinton lie. Because Clinton most certainly led us to believe there was a surplus. <B
Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007We did NOT have Socialism during the 1990's when the wealthy paid a little more in taxes! That is a worn out excuse the wealthy use to perpetuate their GREED! And just when I was giving you credit.When I remember that you consider ME one of the rich, I have to laugh at t
The "rich", that you have such a jealousy for, have the majority of tax burden in this country.Socialism doesn't work gene, understand that. We did NOT have Socialism during the 1990's when the wealthy paid a little more in taxes! That is a worn out excuse the wealthy use to perpetuate their GREED
You are really a hypocrite gene. You were the one complaining about s-chip, and you support democrats who all want more social programs. I think you just like complaining. That was paid for by a tax on cigaretts <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-Quote-T
Reply By: JythierPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007Who pays the tax on Cigarettes? Rich people? Who ever is dumb enough to smoke Ricn and Poor like. Reply By: JythierPo
Reply By: terpfan1980Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2007Second, I have said many times I do not support NEW spending programs until we have balanced the current budget AND begun paying down the National debt.But you do support spending more money on medical care for children, medical care for elderly and retired, and a host of ot
Reply | Edit | DeleteReply By: ParaTed2kPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007You aren't "asking" anything of them, you want it set up so they will be imprisoned for not "paying a little more".What promise have we made to our retired workers? We never promised them health, wealth or that they could maintain their standard of living.
Reply By: Island DogPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007Clinton warned Bush in December 2000 that Ben Laden was a problem.Oh, how nice of him. You would think after being attacked in '93 he would have done something by then. But I forgot, this is your chance to blame Bush for something. You would
Why don't we just take what you call "the rich" and have them flogged every second Tuesday of the week, just to make sure they understand suffering? No just ask them too pay a little more from their wealth so we can pay for the programs that help the majority and enable us to keep the promises we hav
Reply By: Island DogPosted: Thursday, November 29, 2007Their taxes would be cut in half!And? I never seen anyone so happy to tax other people.Maybe now you should focus on how we will pay for all the democrats social programs. First, What I posted is correct. This plan will REDUCE the taxes on the uppe
Last night several candidates talked about the so called “Fair Tax”. That is a proposal to replace Federal Income, Medicare and Social Security taxes with a sales tax up to 30%. It was touted as FAIR which is a lie pure and simple. This is another Conservative plan to further lower the taxes on the wealthy. Let’s take a look at just what a 30% sale
Reply By: Island DogPosted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007No my opinion is in Agreement with the vast majority and with the results during the 1990's! There is nothing that feeds class warfare more then Bush and is transfer of wealth from the middle income to the wealthy! “George W. Bush Robin Hood For The Rich”What do you know abo
Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007Thank GOD the majority do not agree with your ideas!!!!! Pushing for a theocracy, I see? No for a Democracy where the WILL of the Majority is followed!
Reply By: terpfan1980Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007I need MedicareYour lack of financial planning is not my responsibility, nor that of any other member of society. No one can plan for Cancer and NO amount of individual planning could provide the money required to treat it. YOU and others
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