[plain talk]

I think, so long as were not going to cut spending, the tax rates on everybody SHOULD go up. We need to tax at the rate that were spending. Everybody needs to have skin in the game.

well I agree everyone should have skin in the game. However you won't get much going after poor people that don't pay taxes now. It might be the right thing to do but it won't counteract the spending. We should starve the beast and REDUCE taxes. Otherwise there is zero pressure to cut spending.

Also - why worry about the debt? Those young people are voting for Obama in droves. Even my own children. We have attempted to teach many of them and work for the right thing to reduce spending and debt burden on future generations. But no one is listening to us. We are old and will die out. So these young people will have to deal with the mess.

[i_robot73]

Why is that a and/or proposition?

Reduce spending AND get the freeloaders/’poor’ skin in the game by making they start to pay taxes. Cut off the gravy train to the brood mares and the lazy.

Cut the bullshit and DO IT. If you’re going to be cast as the devil, make it worth the ink.