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Taxes have not been sufficient to cover spending for thirty years. That is why we ran up $14 trillion in debt
How big an idiot do you have to be to cut taxes without cutting spending first?
Let's return to tax rates to where they were ten years ago. Once the debt is paid off, the wealthy can have their tax cuts back
Tax rates were at their lowest since 1932 at the end of the Reagan administration
Defense is a federal responsibility, in the constitution.
Healthcare is not a federal responsibility.
Education is not a federal responsibility
Police is not a federal responsibility
Fire protection is not a federal responsibility
Infrastructure is only partially a federal responsibility: Interstate highways come to mind.
Are you telling me the US military is larger than the Chinese Military? This wiki article goes into that...
List of countries by number of troops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also if you worked for DOD you would know that out of the 11 groups (13 actually i think) only 4-6 can be forward deployed, with the others in maintenance.
Since the nukes were bought decades ago, how much is thier maintenance cost as a % of defense spending?
It all comes down to the mission we are expected to perform around the globe. Compared to the actual threat (no nation can compete with the US military) we have a military force much larger than is needed. We drew down our military after the Cold War because the Soviet Threat was gone. We have since allowed the military to grow back to Cold War levels
We are asking Americans to sacrifice at all levels. In an era of Domestic hardship can we afford to keep our current military?
Chinese military? Who gives a fuck about the Chinese Military? They cant even invade Taiwan, how can they invade the US? The primary mission of the Chinese Military is to keep 1.5 billion Chinese under control, not to fight the US
YOU were the one who called our military larger than the next 10. I proved you wrong. Evidently you care about it.
Now if you want to go by cost, yes ours costs more, because the US military principle since WWII has been that bodies are worth more than equipment and ordinance. The US method of making war is expensive in terms of money, but cheaper in terms of lives than other methods because we lavish our troops with the best technology availible, and plan out 20 years into the future to make sure we keep that edge. its what allows us a relatively small army per capita.
I guess you would prefer we go with less well equipped troops, now and 20 years from now.
The domestic crisis is caused not by defense spending, with the exeption of deployment costs (Ill give you that), but by promises made on entilements that no one really cared about worrying how to manage them. Add in current federal tasks that are best left to state/local governments and thats how we are spending more than we take in.
Bush and the Republican Congress let PAYGO expire and then proceeded to pursue an agenda that could have never passed PAYGO muster,
leading to the return of the deficits and the accumulation of more debt.
Tax rates were at their lowest since 1932 at the end of the Reagan administration
Wait. What?
If you have to lie to make your point, your point isn't worth making.And you want to turn us into a third world country internationally AND domestically.But what the Right wants is to pay for that militarism, and the money it brings in for the defense lobby,
by turning the US into a third world country domestically. They want to virtually wipe out (if they had the power to do so) every bit of expenditure or law that goes to alleviating the consequences of being in the lower income brackets in America,
whether it be in health, education, food, shelter, labor, you name it.
In a perfect conservative world, all of that would be gone, and the US would look more like Mexico,
with a really really really big army.
Do you think the world will "like us" then?
I doubt that South Korea, Japan, and the EU will 'like us' more if we stop defending them for free.
I doubt that Iraq or Afghanistan will 'like us' more if we stop building them schools and roads and bridges and hospitals,
while people like you complain about practically every nickel spent on the same over here.
More taxes, more taxes, more taxes, more taxes, more taxes, more taxes... that is the liberals answer to EVERYTHING! Damn these fucking MORONS to HELL.
Senate Democrats Draft Debt-Reduction Plan
By Lori Montgomery, Published: July 8
Senate Democrats have drafted a sweeping debt-reduction plan that would slice $4 trillion from projected borrowing over the next decade without touching the expensive health and retirement programs targeted by President Obama.
Instead, Senate Democrats are proposing to stabilize borrowing through sharp cuts at the Pentagon and other government agencies, as well as $2 trillion in new taxes, primarily on families earning more than $1 million year, according to a copy of the plan obtained by The Washington Post.
Senate Democrats draft debt-reduction plan - The Washington Post
Taxing people who make more than one million dollars a year, the top 1% wealthiest in the country as the article describes them, and cutting the Pentagon's budget, a budget which is never audited and often have projects that go massively over-budget.
What's not to like?
its always easy to like other people paying for your stuff.
The pentagon's budget is audited, you are thinking of the CIA's "black" budget.
One of the problems in the pentagon is the archaic accounting structure, I agree. but it IS audited.
Really?
How many American lives were lost supporting Obamas foreign policies? How many nations did he conquer to find imaginary WMDs and fight imaginary terrorists?
Obama's Cowboy Go it Alone Diplomacy...it different that Dubyas. It just is!
Do you mean like the bogus "Coalition of the willing"? Or using NATO to handle most of the mission in Libya?
Taxes have not been sufficient to cover spending for thirty years. That is why we ran up $14 trillion in debt
How big an idiot do you have to be to cut taxes without cutting spending first?
Let's return to tax rates to where they were ten years ago. Once the debt is paid off, the wealthy can have their tax cuts back
I have a better idea: lets return spending rates to where the were 10 years ago.
It really is pathetic to watch libtards arguing that the only solution to every problem is higher taxes and more spending. It's time to stop the broken record.
Shared sacrifice my ass.
"Shared sacrifice" is a liberal euphemism for "bend over taxpayers!"
Just as the left planned.Taxes are low because official Underemployment is 16.4%.
Add to that the people who are no longer counted as unemployed because they have given up looking for a job, and that figure increases to 22%+.
Tax receipts are down because Millions and Millions of people are not earning an income.
Tax rates were at their lowest since 1932 at the end of the Reagan administration
Wait. What?
Since 1932, the lowest income tax rates occurred at the end of the Reagan Administration. The top marginal rate then was 25%.
I agree. Hedge fund income should be taxed as income. It is not their capital at risk.
Were clearly dealing with a radical minority of extreme rightists who harbor this infantile notion that all taxes are bad.
They cling blindly to their dogma facts be damned.
America is consequently held hostage by rightist ignorance.
Were clearly dealing with a radical minority of extreme rightists who harbor this infantile notion that all taxes are bad.
They cling blindly to their dogma facts be damned.
America is consequently held hostage by rightist ignorance.
Were clearly dealing with a radical minority of extreme rightists who harbor this infantile notion that all taxes are bad.
They cling blindly to their dogma facts be damned.
America is consequently held hostage by rightist ignorance.
If Federal Income Taxes are so great why do only 50% of us pay them?
