Sorry. The only responsible approach is to both LOWER spending and RAISE taxes. The legislature on both sides has piled up bills on the credit card...and now they're going to have to pay it off.
I am open to this IF in fact, there is a fair increase across the board and legitimate spending cuts...not token cuts
Republicans need to take a clue from Obama and start moving towards the MIDDLE. Stop this infantile stomping of feet and drawing lines in the sand. It's hilarious that partisan shills in this thread want to throw around grand theories and hackneyed platitudes. Sounds great on paper. The reality is, both sides have to give so that the entire country can GET MOVING.
I wish many on the left felt that way during the helathcare debate
De-Regulation? Seriously? Really? Yeah, let's just trust that self-interested big business is going to protect consumers and not trash the environment. NOT! Totally naive if you think that de-regulation is going to help EVERYWHERE. Are there some regulations that could be done away with? Of ******* course. See that's called compromise. It's called being realistic and reasonable. So meet me half way and say that in some places, the regulations in place are NOT ENOUGH!
Without many regulations, corporations will be kept in check by the public. With 24 hour news and investigative reporters looking to carve out a career and a name, corporations will not be as apt to do the wrong thing.
And as for consolidating power...you need to look at your boy Bush (yeah, that's right...I said Bush. Come back with your tired, stupid "Blame Booosh" meme. It just means you're an idiot if you do) who, under Cheney, thought that anything he did as the head Executive, was per se constitutional. (Hint: It wasn't). Need a link? Go google Frontline's Documentary "Cheney's Law". If you care about the Constitution, it will make you cry.
Sorry...I have no desire to get into the Bush debate anymore. He has not been in the white house for three years and it is getting old.
People with money are going to save their money until it seems safe to risk it on re-investment. I know, I own 3 businesses. I talk with other business owners. That's just reality.
I agree. As a business owner, and a business planner...this is exactly what is happeniong out there.
Another reality? Trickle-down doesn't work. If it did, the 40% of the Stimulus that was tax cuts would have amounted to some jobs
Huh? You answered that in your previous statement. Business owners, such as yourself, are not ready to re-invest. Too much crap out there right now..."business is bad" rhetoric...and cap and trade rhetoric...and unstable oil situation...."worst recession since the great depression" rhetoric....healthcare costs to the employer rising....debtr creating a world economy crisis.....