AmyNation
Road Warrior
My feelings exactly.The United States of America is one budget bill away from its return to greatness.
The Fiscal Cliff™ will do wonders for concentrating the minds of our legislators. The rich will have their taxes raised, the defense budget will have $500 million trimmed over ten years, entitlement programs will have three or four trillion trimmed over the same period. The stock market will jump for joy, rainbows will sparkle over the Capitol, and everyone will get better cable reception.
We still need to raise the retirement age, though. You can only kick that can down the road for so long.
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A focused congress that goes in there and gets their hands dirty and we are back on to a path of stability. I really feel that, contrary to the current whining, Americans are ready for tax raises and cuts. Everywhere I turn people are talking about the need to increase taxes and cut spending, and not just on the rich. On themselves and on social programs.
In the city I'm currently living in, people voted for not one, but two tax increases on themselves and it passed by HUGE margins.
What did they vote on to cut?
Police salaries, and school personnel.
Edit to add- although did that 3 years ago to maintain a balanced budget.