[BobL]

“VAT is the only wat to go.”

AGREE!!! We also need to raise the gas tax to about $5.00 per gallon (total), and let the Bush Tax Cuts expire.

All three of the above will get us closer to a balanced budget - maybe all the way, providing that the Republicans keep spending under control in the House.

I am SICK TO DEATH of the INGRATES, including many on this site, that insist on their goodies (like Social Security and Medicare) but want my kids and future grandkids to have to pay for it. If you want your GOODIES, then PAY FOR IT YOURSELF and leave my kids alone!!!

[cicero2k]

AGREE!!! We also need to raise the gas tax to about $5.00 per gallon (total), and let the Bush Tax Cuts expire.
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We part ways on gas tax. Cheap energy is the only way to grow this economy.

However, as long as VAT is not means tested, everyone feels it via higher prices.

The reality is that we voted for bigger government.

[LibLieSlayer]

I am just a few years away from collecting but I would happily give up ALL of my socialist security and medicare if the government would just cancel those programs and get GTF out of my life... but they see unending money that they can steal from future generations so they will never do it. What we need is to just vote out every sumbich in DC... they have ALL been there for far too long and ALL are guilty... republican and dim... the dims about 70% and the republicans about 30%. Not a single person serving needs to remain. New people with their minds right and term limits might save us but the thieves and murderers and terrorists residing in both houses of Congress will never stop stealing, moving the country to the left or killing long enough to save America.

LLS

[Nervous Tick]

>> I am SICK TO DEATH of the INGRATES, including many on this site

Remind me again what branch of the military you served within?

[Dawgreg]

Hold the phone BobL......you say there are those on this site that insist on their goodies like Social Security and Medicare? Uh, excuse me, but haven’t we ALL been forced to pay INTO it all these years?? How’s about the gooberment paying back the monies they’ve stolen from Social Security and go after the FRAUD in Medicare for starters? I’m down to my last nerve with those that think that 50 years of working and paying into these programs that we’re somehow responsible for all the ills of society and we should give up our benefits and dare I say our PENSIONS to which alot of us paid about 10% of our pay toward said pensions for years on end? Those that are the loudest about this better hope they never get old and if they’re in some kind of pension plan and yes, SS and Medicare....they better hope they get it back!