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Taxes likely to rise eventually to tame deficit
Guardian.UK ^ | Tuesday April 6, 2010

Posted on 04/06/2010 5:36:44 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Edited on 04/06/2010 5:41:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: Bigtigermike

We have a choice, and a clear one: remain free citizens of a limited Constitutional Republic whose laws we may not always agree with but must obey as along as they are consistent with their charter, or live as servants of a government exercising powers with which it is not endowed by its people, which is to say, powers that are illegitimate and to be opposed not merely as a matter of right, but of duty.


21 posted on 04/06/2010 5:51:37 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Bigtigermike

I just got back from Italy yesterday. Prices are eye wateringly high. Largely thanks to the VAT. Lord help us if they add a VAT to our other massive taxes.

Oh yeah and EVERYONE in Italy cheats on their taxes. EVERYONE.


22 posted on 04/06/2010 5:51:58 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Bigtigermike
Published by that rat's nest, Reuters - figures. And I want that word 'entitlement' to be as toxic in the American lexicon as much as that boot-licker Volcker thinks that 'VAT' isn't. It should have the same visceral effect on the national soul as 'treason' or 'genocide'.


23 posted on 04/06/2010 5:52:01 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Where the hell can I get a court injunction to keep my own government out of my life?!?)
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To: Bigtigermike

FU Heir Volker!


24 posted on 04/06/2010 5:52:31 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Bigtigermike

Yep, that’ll fix it!


25 posted on 04/06/2010 5:52:41 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Bigtigermike
You could Tax all income 100% above $50,000 and it would not be enough. There is only so much money, they can't keep
putting taxes here and there. A VAT tax will be even worse. Do any of these DAMN idiots think of cutting spending?
The day is coming very soon when these decisions will have to be made and then lookout Entitlements will be cut.
26 posted on 04/06/2010 5:57:40 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Wisconsinlady

Lady! That should read:

“As long as they can pay for their beer and BRATWURST, they don’t care.”

*SMILE*

I agree. We’re going to have to fall a LOT further before the average schmuck gets even a HINT of a clue as to what’s going on.

I’m thinking the first time a few million people don’t get their welfare checks, and a few million Grandmas & Grandpas don’t get their SS checks on the first of the month will do the trick. ;)


27 posted on 04/06/2010 5:58:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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To: Bigtigermike
I've said it many times in previous posts & others at FR have said the same thing ... a VAT is only a matter of time. After Obama health care passed it's just a matter of when ... it's inevitable.
28 posted on 04/06/2010 5:58:48 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: Bigtigermike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7WUugsWng

“not one dime”


29 posted on 04/06/2010 6:00:03 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Bigtigermike
The news of our immanent takeover continues. At this rate, we're going to fall faster than the USSR....
30 posted on 04/06/2010 6:01:37 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: Bigtigermike

Higher taxes will solve the deficit. Right.

Imagine a compulsive, degenerate gambler who’s $50,000 in debt to loansharks who are threatening his life. Imagine “solving” the problem by handing him $50,000 in cash on Super Bowl weekend.

That’s about how well tax increases would work to solve the deficit. The problem is not the deficit. It’s the degenerate, compulsive spending.


31 posted on 04/06/2010 6:02:50 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
The day is coming very soon when these decisions will have to be made and then lookout Entitlements will be cut.

That day will never come.

It will never come because it has already passed. Well, except for the fact that entitlements didn't get cut.

Surprised?

Neither was I.

Don't worry, it's not as if you slept through CWII, or anything; THAT is still coming, at least, it is if God still makes Americans the same way He used to.

Anyway, you remember that old radio show, "The Shadow"?

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows."

the day is soon coming when, if The Shadow were a Leftist politician he'd be angling for a way to relocate -- to Mars.

32 posted on 04/06/2010 6:05:31 PM PDT by HKMk23 (The Democrat Legacy: Hoax and Chains)
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To: Bigtigermike
No tax hikes (neither in rates nor in the base) until spending has been cut to the bone, and beyond, first.

Flushing Congress

33 posted on 04/06/2010 6:08:44 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: HKMk23

Entitlements will be cut and taxes will be raised. If somethings not sustainable it’s not sustainable.


34 posted on 04/06/2010 6:09:24 PM PDT by BiggieLittle
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Wow, I never saw that coming. ;’)


35 posted on 04/06/2010 6:13:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Bigtigermike
The U.S. should take a cleaver to entitlement programs and hack them into near oblivion. They are unconstitutional uses of money confiscated from the taxpayers. They are also bottomless pits. More taxation is not a solution. The politicians will spend everything they collect in taxes and more. The politicians have no self control. They need some harsh limits imposed to keep them in check.
36 posted on 04/06/2010 6:23:37 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Bigtigermike

Great - I was just thinking taxes are way too low. :)


37 posted on 04/06/2010 6:27:39 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: lonevoice

Can we quickly secede???


38 posted on 04/06/2010 6:29:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, while you were sleeping the Socialists took over.)
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To: Bigtigermike; All
Didn't Thomas Sowell just warn us in a great article that they were going to do this?
39 posted on 04/06/2010 6:32:36 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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To: Bigtigermike

What “Mother” Volcker and his comrades never will grasp is that jacking up taxes will result in less revenue collected as it suffocates economic growth.

Maybe these economically-challenged leftists will finally learn some basics.


40 posted on 04/06/2010 6:44:00 PM PDT by Zman516 (muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
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