(August 26, 2012 at 1:53 pm)A Theist Wrote: The U.S. has a current spending budget of $3.8 trillion with a federal deficit of $1.3 trillion by the end of this year. Here's a new rule for Bill Mahar: Maybe if Washington would exercise some spending discipline we wouldn't whine about the $16 trillion debt.
And where was all this hand-wringing over the debt when W was in charge and doubled it. You remember how he ran in 2000 against the surplus, saying it was a bad thing and we needed to give that money away in tax cuts for the wealthy? Why is it conservatives only care about the debt when they're not in power?
But back to my original point, we have a revenue problem. The wealthy aren't paying their fair share of the tax burden. Conservative ideology states that we should shift the burden away from them so they trickle down all over us. Well, the wealth didn't flow down and it never will. All it has done is balloon the debt.
So step one is we increase taxes on the wealthy to a level where they're paying their fair share.
Step two is we slash the defense budget in half. We're still racing in the Cold War with only ourselves in the race. Anyone else think that's insane?
We could also cut some conservative favorites from the budget, like the War on Drugs.
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