[Puddleglum]

You said:

"Coburn is talking about raising taxes on the few producers we currently have. He apparently doesn't get that we have a spending problem. You don't either."

Coburn said:

"The public rightly prefers spending cuts over revenue increases, but numerous polls indicate the vast majority of Americans would support the only type of plan that would ever make it out of Congress and be signed into law: one that favors spending cuts over revenue increases but includes both [....]

In the coming weeks I’ll be putting forward my own proposal that puts everything on the table and cuts $9 trillion in spending over the next decade[....]

History has not been kind to republics that pretend they can borrow and spend beyond their means indefinitely. "

You didn't read Coburn's editorial, did you? You just read the HotAir thingee.

[Puddleglum]

PS - source of excerpts in my post 65:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-the-senate-stalling-on-the-debt-debate/2011/05/18/AFpqEm6G_story.html

[Minus_The_Bear]

I saw him on national and local television as well.

I really don't see what is so hard to understand about not raising taxes on the remaining producers.

We are spending too much. We need to cut costs. Coburn is not proposing to make the current non-payers begin to pay... he is wanting the producers to pay more.

If that math is too hard... I don't know how else to explain it.