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[hadit]

Thank you for the correction. revenue is the word I should have used. Lower rates for the rich require higher rates for everybody else.

Only if spending is not reduced.

 

[BULLDOG]

Only if spending is not reduced.

Reduced spending for the future is a different subject. We already spent the money, and we have bills to pay our bills now. After that, we can talk about how much we will spend in the future.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I hate to ask relevant questions but is anyone making this stuff now? At any price?

 

[hadit]

Reduced spending for the future is a different subject. We already spent the money, and we have bills to pay our bills now. After that, we can talk about how much we will spend in the future.

If spending reduction is not part of the deal at the same time as revenue, it will NEVER be done.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Your thread is off-topic silliness. There is nothing political about the greed of an individual like Shkreli. It's bozos like you who have to somehow connect the dots of every frigging bad thing that happens back to Conservatives.

Stop making it so easy. You aren't Conservatives.

 

[BULLDOG]

If spending reduction is not part of the deal at the same time as revenue, it will NEVER be done.

You could be right, but they are still not the same thing. We can reduce spending at any time. All congress has to do is not vote to spend money. Problem solved. However, there is nothing that can be done about the money we already spent. It is a bill, and it won't go away. Unless you want the country to default and collapse, (nobody wants that) we have to continue making the payments we agreed to make. Since we have to come up with the money, it would make sense for those who benefit most from all the things we have already paid for to pay more than those who have not. The rich should pay more, but they get all the massive tax cuts.

 

[hadit]

You could be right, but they are still not the same thing. We can reduce spending at any time. All congress has to do is not vote to spend money. Problem solved. However, there is nothing that can be done about the money we already spent. It is a bill, and it won't go away. Unless you want the country to default and collapse, (nobody wants that) we have to continue making the payments we agreed to make. Since we have to come up with the money, it would make sense for those who benefit most from all the things we have already paid for to pay more than those who have not. The rich should pay more, but they get all the massive tax cuts.

And, quite frankly, they get massive tax cuts because they already pay the vast majority of the taxes. My objection to taxing more in the vain hope of paying our bills is that Congress will turn a $900 billion deficit into a $2 trillion one overnight if they think there will be more money coming in and we'll be right back where we are now, only with more taxes to be paid. That's why not tying spending cuts to tax hikes never works.

 

[BULLDOG]

And, quite frankly, they get massive tax cuts because they already pay the vast majority of the taxes. My objection to taxing more in the vain hope of paying our bills is that Congress will turn a $900 billion deficit into a $2 trillion one overnight if they think there will be more money coming in and we'll be right back where we are now, only with more taxes to be paid. That's why not tying spending cuts to tax hikes never works.

Again, not the same thing. Not making more bills is not the same as not paying the ones we already have.
The rich do pay most of the taxes. The top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 50% They should pay a lot more.

 

[MarathonMike]

Stop making it so easy. You aren't Conservatives.

Was that supposed to make sense?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Was that supposed to make sense?

To you? I give zero fucks, magaturd.