Posted on 11/04/2011 6:36:15 PM PDT by mnehring
You are right, but as we all know, that’s not what they are talking about, especially in light of saying cuts won’t do it.
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Rats need to be investigated, jailed, and hounded out of federal elective office and unions stripped of their ability to steal dues from workers paychecks.
Time to upset their 'business as usual' programs in the slime pit called D.C.
Sort of like Herman Cain.
Yes. Too many politicos of all parties are dependent on revenues/debt from government, so we’ll continue to starve the b. With too little manufacturing for sustainable revenues and a currency that will only go down (globalism in business, inflation in producing countries, foreign product prices increasing, and finally, more dollars to get those foreign products).
Remember in the FOX debates I think it was, when the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they wouldn’t support a 10:1 reduction in spending to tax hike?
Cain wanted not to raise his hand; he hesitated and was the last to do so. I for one would take a 10:1 any day.
Unfinished sentence. With too little manufacturing for sustainable revenues and a currency that will only go down, there will be no communist nation rising from the default. ...only freedom.
they must find $1.2 billion and that is all. I’m thinking that Obama may need to raise the debt ceiling before the next election.
"Revenues" means "revenues" to Republicans. It does not have to mean taxes.
Here's just one example: if oil companies lease more federal lands for drilling, that's new revenues but it is not taxes.
Just in case anybody thought the pubbies were looking out for the folks. I guess Boehner and company think its time to eat our peas.
I for one would take a 10:1 any day.
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You are a union shill and not too bright so that’s not surprising.
To retire the national debt:
1) Tax liberals 1% of their income for each IQ point under 100.
2) Charge admission to Newt debating Barack.
Sign that into legislation next week and nobody will accuse Republican’s of caving in on taxes.
Here’s just one example: if oil companies lease more federal lands for drilling, that’s new revenues but it is not taxes.
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No that would not be “new” revenues. If there was a new fee on oil drilling or an increase in lease rates then that would be new revenues though.
I don’t want any new revenues of any kind, they would just spend them. Debt would NOT be reduced.
There already are plenty of revenues. CUT SPENDING!
Cut and Run signed it? I thought he said he would not vote for tax increases. Then again the surrender monkey said he was against earmarks, but always puts as many as possible in every bill possible. Does he have one bit of honesty in him?
No flicking way would I turn over the rewrite of our founding document to the current group of people in this nation. You have a 50% chance of getting what you want. Horrible odds.
Let’s just back to the rules already in place in try that first.
Good point. And you are right, I think we need to give the next set of elections a chance. I just don’t have much confidence it’s going to work and if it doesn’t, the next step for the people is a Constitutional Convention. We certainly would need to be certain of the amendments being proposed but remember the great majority of the country is made up of red state territory. The problem is a very small percentage of leftist statists have managed to get control of nearly the entire political process. They have rigged the process as to prevent the limited government system we have from working.
This is where we need a reset. Strict term limits could virtually end the concept of the career (Entrenched is the proper word) politicians. Also things like the commerce clause need to be strictly limited or simply eliminated completely.
It’s a “radical” idea by some standards but the alternative is even uglier. We have already lost the war and total economic collapse is clearly in our future unless massive changes are made to the central government. Those in power are not going to vote themselves LESS power. That is the very reason the framers added the option of a Convention to amend and fix the constitution.
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