I have a simple solution. Why not just make contributing more taxes voluntary? We keep rates where they are now and if you feel government needs more of your money than that you are more than welcome to give it to them. There are tons of liberals who are saying we need to give government more money. So we simply remove the procedural barrier where government gives you your money back if you pay more than what they say you owe. If you don't want to pay more than legally required, that's fine too. I'm sure there are more than enough liberals out there who will readily give more of their own money to compensate for those of us that don't want to.
Most liberals clearly do not support the runaway deficits, in fact republicans are generally allergic to fiscal responsibility.
IOW your thesis is bogus.
Do you oppose expiration of the Bush tax cuts?
Are you willing to do what it takes to reduce spending? Like cut 70% from the military budget? Eliminate medicare? Increase taxes so it is possible to pay down the debt? Organize politically to make this happen instead of just whining?
Total nonsense.
1. Liberals, unchecked, leave those budget time bombs:
The New Deal gave us Social Security, Obama gave us Obamacare, and the Great Society left us Medicare. Beck, Balfe, “Broke, “ p. 207
2. Peter Orszag tells it like it will be:
‘As background to its estimates, the CBO notes that spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will rise rapidly in the future, pushing up "primary" federal spending (excluding interest payments on the debt) from 18.2 percent of GDP today to 28.3 percent in 2050 and 35.3 percent in 2082. With interest payments included, spending will hit 41.8 percent of GDP in 2050 and 75.4 per¬cent by 2082
…."[t]he tax rate for the lowest bracket would have to be increased from 10 per¬cent to 25 percent; the tax rate on incomes in the current 25 percent bracket would have to be increased to 63 percent; and the tax rate of the highest bracket would have to be raised from 35 percent to 88 percent. The top corporate income tax rate would also increase from 35 percent to 88 percent." Peter R. Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office, letter to Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI), May 19, 2008,
Taxes to Pay for Medicare, Medicaid, and SSI | Medicare Insurance | eons.com
3. “Spending on the three major entitlements, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, will more than double in the next 40 years.
Without major reforms, entitlement spending will consume all federal tax revenues by 2052.”
http://www.issues2010.com/pdf/Entitlements.pdf
4. "Are you willing to do what it takes to reduce spending? Like cut 70% from the military budget? Eliminate medicare? Increase taxes so it is possible to pay down the debt? Organize politically to make this happen instead of just whining."
Wow, talk about whining!
There is no possible way to pay down 13 trillion in debt!
The solution is
a) balanced budget...to the extent possible: cut the gimmicks
b) cut taxes and red tape, regulation, to produce the business-friendly environment that will pour taxes in.
c) encourage initiative and never, never elect a President who demonizes business! We have to make entrepreneurs the heros of the economy that they were before the 60's and the SDS generation!
Of course, the proof of what I just wrote is the White House signing on to the 'no raising taxes' doctrine of the GOP, proving that the left always knew that the demonization was bogus.
