Posted on 07/03/2004 12:59:10 AM PDT by Remember_Salamis
So the CBO didn't "judged the 23% rate to be sufficient under the '97 tax increases of the Clinton administration."
Quite the contrary, however I just don't know where, or care, to find it for you on the internet.
You may believe anything you want, as your mind was made up long ago, however the facts remain as they are.
When it comes down to it, BEA/PayGo rules are dead and gone, meeting any CBO measures of "revenue neutrality" is as a dead issue.
Your attempt at continuance of this discussion appears to have no point other than wasting my time that can be productively spent elsewhere.
SO what if the moochers pay NRST? It STILL ISN"T THEIR MONEY!!! WHY SHOULD THEY CARE HOW MUCH IT COSTS AS LONG AS THE TEAT KEEPS PRODUCING?
They take the kid to the ER instead of the doctor's office WE pick up the tab. They DON'T CARE how much it costs. It is not the sweat of their brow.
It does not matter how you pour water into a bucket with a hole in the bottom, it is still d@mned hard to fill. Plug the hole.
How do you propose plugging that hole?
Before you harp on that, I don't have to be a dog trainer to know a dead dog won't hunt.
Regardless of how the money is collected, too much is being wasted. No system is fair which takes from those who are productive and gives to those who will not (not are incapable of, but will not) be productive. I don't need government to waste my hard-earned money.
The difference is to be found in the mindset of the Jamestown colony, where the storehouses were locked, (those who work, eat), and that to the Massachusetts Plymouth colony, where all ate regardless, and all nearly starved. Thanksgiving has been hailed as a celebration of many things, but in reality, it was a rescue by the local Indians. Look what happened to them.
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