Uhm, raising taxes will make the USA unrecongnizable as to what we know it as.
No New Taxes!
Medicare, Medicaid, government provided unemployment benefits are going away. The questions are how? And how soon? Raising the debt ceiling and/or raising taxes may prolong the agony, but the pain will be far worse when it finally has to be borne. And the price tag then could include the existence of the United States.
Taxpayers always take it “in the end.”
Uhm, raising taxes will make the USA unrecongnizable as to what we know it as.
No New Taxes!
Yeah, it's called the welfare state. We have run out of other people's money.
Let me see, not raising taxes further will result in a far different American society then today? You mean the half of American society that is dependent upon big government?
Here’s a thought: The Repubs had better NOT agree to ANYTHING that raises taxes cause I, for one, am seriously looking for that different American society. =.=
I don’t think you understand: WE LIBERALS SPENT YOU SUCKERS INTO A QUAGMIRE.
Now you have to pay for it.
You can thank us now. :)
/sarc(?)
“Free lunchism” refers to those robbed by the IRS who want to keep what they worked hard for. Not to those getting goodies from big government.
wow.
From 5 of 2010.This article isn’t that bad. He is liberal but points out the problem clearly — Americans want a free lunch. His solution is a tax hike. He says the Republicans won’t be able to force a spending cut through because Middle America won’t stand for entitlement cuts. He sees a general tax increase with a pretty severe tax increase for the “rich.” Quite frankly, as much as I hate it and as much as I’d fight it, he may be right. Way too many Americans want a free ride paid for by “the rich.” We can’t get around that. Its depressing but true.
We have the inflation tax from devalued currency.
Then reduce all government by 10-25%. The states have been reducing their employees, and adjusting retirement benefits, and combining departments to shrink the number of high paid employees at the top.
Roll all spending back to 2008 levels this year then to 2004 levels next year, then 2000 levels the year after that.
All of that stuff should be done, before they start to impact programs that old people have been stuck with due to government mandate. Some way must be found to help young people too.
There should be more choices than Social Security, and Medicare, but there should be an orderly phase-in and transition period. Those age 55 and older are pretty much stuck with the ponzi scheme, but that is no reason to doom younger workers to the same.
If Congress Critters can't figure out how to do this with out unduly harming the current recipients, then doom lies ahead. It will all come crashing down sooner or later.
That statement is asinine, but understandable coming from the New York Slimes... Most American's couldn't tell you what a 'debt ceiling' is and when asked the question, it is likely that most of the respondents thought they were being asked a question about construction methods, rather than the actual national debt of the United States. LOL
The Pew Research Center is a joke, but the New York Slimes constantly rely on their nonsensical polls to justify their gobbly gook.
At a certain point people will be driven to an underground economy. Then the government will become even more tyrannical in enforcing taxes further destroying the economy of the country. In the end the economy will collapse and the U.S. will breakup into smaller countries. It happened to the USSR it will happen here.
The socialists need to revive the Kennedy family’s “profile in courage” award.
That’s where socialists celebrate “heros” in office who defy the will and best interest of American citizens in order to force them to ingest rotten peas.
Fine, we can start by extending the Federal Income Tax to the approximately 47% of the public who does not pay it.
If the GOP stays fractured (which the dem/MSM axis is continues to fervently desire) taxes are likely to rise.