[Smogger]

This is why the Republican minority in my state has been able to hold fast and not allow the Rats to increase taxes.

[ritewingwarrior]

They do it so merrily because it isn’t their frickin money!

[Islander7]

Conservatives = Producers of taxes

Liberals = Consumers of taxes

[Tarpon]

Raise taxes, fund socialism and gun control. It’s all Democrats know.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Today, the bastards started spending the tax dollars of our children and grandchildren. “For the first time in my adult life,” I’M ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRY!

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Liberal Democrats spend our money so readily because they know "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse...from the public treasury..." (Alexander Tyler, ~1750.) and they are trying to destroy our freedoms.

[This_far]

Why?
Because it gets them re-elected!

[RWB Patriot]

Because it’s not their money.

[RWB Patriot]

Because that’s how they get votes (by bribing voters with “helpful programs”) and votes are all they care about.

[CutePuppy]

Some of your posts indicate you might be interested in this:

Interestingly, the 3-point edge among Democrats for bigger government and higher taxes is considerably smaller than the 19-point margin among liberals. Why? African-Americans, almost all of whom are Democrats and who presumably comprise a significant portion of the Democratic sample, favor smaller government and lower taxes by a wide margin, 53% to only 22%. White Democrats, in other words, resemble liberals in their fealty to big government while African-Americans take on a more conservative hue.

[CutePuppy]

This is why the Republican minority in my state has been able to hold fast and not allow the Rats to increase taxes.

It's really worse than that, Democrats are way beyond spending the current "tax dollars", they don't have to anymore... they just authorize spending, and the deficits are being charged on Joe Taxpayer's Credit Card, with interest.

So they will bring the state to the brink of bankruptcy and then will claim that the taxes (or fees or other "revenue enhancements") have to be imposed or raised and "sacrifices to be shared", and will blame Republicans for deficits and "lack of fiscal responsibility".

[meyer]

Overall, given the choice between more government services and higher taxes, or fewer services and lower taxes,...

Oh, but if it were only that way. The problem is, the choice is between more government services with higher taxes for someone else, versus fewer services and lower taxes for someone else.

The name of the game for democrats and some republicans is to provide for their voters at someone else's expense.

No tax for you, no tax for me,
We'll tax that man behind the tree.

As long as 51% of the people are getting a free ride from 49% or less of the voting population, the freeloaders will win.

[Neoliberalnot]

The rats spend tax dollars like water because they can get away with it. Nobody can or will stop them and they dang well know it. We are the serfs and they are the nobles.

[org.whodat]

Trying to catch up with newt and the boys maybe.

[SunkenCiv]

Sarah Palin’s PAC Signals 2012 Run for President
The Blogger News Network | January 28th, 2009 | PS Burton
Posted on 01/28/2009 3:10:08 PM PST by lewisglad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173792/posts