The New Liberal Ethos: Spend and Tax

Smoke and Change ^ | 4/7/2010 | Smoke and Change

[pb929]

President Obama and his liberal cohorts in the Congress have come up with an ingenious new twist on the age old liberal principle of tax and spend. They realize that higher taxes would be politically unpopular and so have concluded a frontal assault on the American taxpayer would not be wise. Instead they have embarked on a bold plan to spend more money than any other Congress in the history of the United States; money we don’t have. After racking up a massive debt and driving the nation to the brink of bankruptcy the trap will be sprung. They will claim that higher taxes are the only way out. It’s a clever plan and it just might work...

[pb929]

When will the madness stop?

[mlocher]

Spend and inflate is just as effective.

[ex-snook]

It stops with ‘pay as you go’. No more borrowing.

[Psycho_Bunny]

It’s actionable treason.

[griswold3]

Many uninformed liberals wonder aloud ‘why are the tea partiers complaining? Their taxes haven't gone up.”

Anyone who understand debt and the demand it has on future economic opportunities, realizes action needs to be taken now!
This is the death spiral of the United States of America. We'll be living lives of quiet desperation just like other industrialized nations.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Instead of spend and tax, I use borrow and use the borrowed
money to bribe thugs than tax to pay part of the borrowing.

[Hoffer Rand]

Many uninformed liberals wonder aloud ‘why are the tea partiers complaining? Their taxes haven't gone up.”

This mindset drives me nuts, as I'm sure it does you. When you're tied to the railroad tracks, and you can see the train approaching, you don't need some idiot saying, "Well, why are you trying to free yourself? You haven't been hit by the train." Grrrrr

[CoastWatcher]

I think that we should eliminate pensions for any congressman or senator who vote for budgets that run deficits for a majority of their time in office. This will let them feel some of the pain they are inflicting on the rest of us.

[FormerACLUmember]

100% accurate.

[timestax]

TAXES ARE KILLING US

[mbynack]

The government has a plan to get us out of debt without raising taxes. It’s the same plan commonly used by a lot of Americans - they’re going to win the lottery.

[OrioleFan]

Party of Tax and Spend has become party of Spend and Tax (my post #4 April 16, 2009)

[LloydofDSS]

Until we find a way to break up the conflict of interest between public employee unions and democrat politicians, we are going to spiral down to third world living standards.