VAT is neither fair nor responsible

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 05/15/2010 | Kevin Price

[Daveinyork]

“You’d probably get busted for tax evasion.”

By whom? You’re promising to get rid if the IRS?

[MNJohnnie]

The Progressive Political/Media machine is all ready gearing up to push the idea that tax hikes will “fix the debt crisis” when the faux “Debt Reduction Commission” unveils their “fix” later this year. This is just the latest repeat of the old lie.

In 1986 to Reagan, 1991 to Bush 1 and 1993 to Clinton the Progressives in Congress made the same fraudulent promises. Give us these massive tax hikes now and later we will cut the spending to balance the budget.

We gave them the tax hikes and Federal Spending exploded faster then we could pay for it.

The ONLY time we have gotten a balanced budget in the last 40 years is when the post 1994 election Republican Congress took the public relations hits to actually reign in the spending. Contrary to the Progressive mythology, Bill Clinton’s tax hikes did not do that. The last Democrat Congress budget forecast in 1994 forecast $200 billion deficits for the rest of the 1990s.

So this time the response of the American people should be

“Look we have heard this lie before. This time we want the spending cuts in place first, then 4 or 5 years down the road, when you have shown you can be responsible with the people’s purse, then you can come ask us for tax hikes.