My fellow Americans: Posted on 03/03/2009 2:25:03 PM PST by Vigilanteman
My fellow Americans:
If you had to choose between shrinking the size of government or shrinking the size of your paycheck, which would it be? Chances are you think you're paying enough taxes already. And I agree with you.
The trouble is, your opinions don't always count for much in Washington, DC. It seems to be taken for granted here that the Federal Government has an automatic right to grow at your expense. Listening to people talk, you'd almost think government owns your earnings. So, please be a little skeptical when you hear the moaning from Washington's born-again deficit fighters. The truth is, these are the same people who brought us big and bloated government in the first place, and they haven't changed a bit.
The Democrats use foggy language like "recovering revenue" or "stopping the revenue drain," but you don't need a Ph.D. in bureaucracy to know what they're offering: a choice between a tax increase, a tax increase, or a tax increase.
In the down payment deficit reduction talks at the White House, suggestions were made on behalf of liberal House Democrats-suggestions for making you pay more taxes. They added up to $100 billion or more. Some examples: Liberal Democrats want very badly to eliminate indexing; that's the historic reform that will tie your tax brackets to the rate of inflation. Starting next year, you will no longer be pushed into a higher tax bracket just because you're receiving a cost-of-living raise. Keep in mind that indexing doesn't help the wealthy; they're already in the highest tax brackets. Indexing helps those who need help, but it deprives government of the automatic increase in its allowance, so the spenders want to get rid of it. I don't intend to let them.
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The GOP should run this Saturday, up against Obama.
Miss him immeasurably. He became our President at a very rough time in history: right after Jimmy Carter screwed everything up. He was encouragement and power when the US needed it most.
There, fixed.
I was too young at the time to “understand” this great, great man.
Oh, my loss!
May his spirit fly over us once again.
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