New Thoughts for a new day...
I thought that I as our token progressive (note the avoidance of liberal or leftist...) I should write down some things that I believe. This stems from the fact that B-dizzle Wolfle-dizzle and I talked last weekend and found a good bit of common ground.
I'll do this real slow like so you O'Reilly folks can keep up- maybe one major idea a week.
1. The Federal Budget should be balanced. Period. I'm not saying that every year has to be even, you can run a surplus or a debt, but you can't do a ten year projection that shows that you will be >$10,000,000,000,000 MORE in debt and have that be OK.
I don't believe that tax cuts stimulate the economy and help balance the budget. If they did, we would have just raised the debt ceiling to $9,000,000,000,000. Let me write that number again $9,000,000,000,000. Just Damn.
We are mortgaging our children and their children every day by spending more than we bring in. I think that this is a result of the "Consumer" mindset that we are now trained to have. More stuff = More happy. This is a post for another day, but... I see this in people. I heard over the weekend that the average American has $10,000 in credit card debt. I bet the mode debt is even higher- there are a lot of us who still have $0 in CC debt. This is why we don't care that our govt is doing the same thing. "I can pay this off later (many of us never do) so why can't the govt do the same". They're keeping my money in my pocket. That is true, but their also taking it from you and your kids.
I heard once that $0.18 of every tax dollar goes to pay on our debt. Do you think this is going to get smaller the way we are spending today? If we keep borrowing more, this number will increase- duh. That means that if we expect to keep the same services, we will either have to borrow more or raise taxes. Eventually we won't be able to pay this.
Kirkdiggity will say that the solution is to remove services (or go to the fair tax- get me the book...). The issue is that even with all of the pork in the budget and the "Social" programs, they make up a pretty small portion of the tax burden. We are talking about having to limit the military or highways or medicare to make this plan work. Please keep in mind that madicare is getting bigger and we still don;t cover people right...
We have to raise taxes to fix this. I don;t know how, I'm not a tax lawyer, but that is the only solution to this problem. I will more than happily give back my $300 check from a few years ago if the super wealthy will give up their thousands per year breaks...
In closing......................... These thoughts are conservative thoughts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't spend what you don't have.
Disagree with me. I dare you :-)
I thought that I as our token progressive (note the avoidance of liberal or leftist...) I should write down some things that I believe. This stems from the fact that B-dizzle Wolfle-dizzle and I talked last weekend and found a good bit of common ground.
I'll do this real slow like so you O'Reilly folks can keep up- maybe one major idea a week.
1. The Federal Budget should be balanced. Period. I'm not saying that every year has to be even, you can run a surplus or a debt, but you can't do a ten year projection that shows that you will be >$10,000,000,000,000 MORE in debt and have that be OK.
I don't believe that tax cuts stimulate the economy and help balance the budget. If they did, we would have just raised the debt ceiling to $9,000,000,000,000. Let me write that number again $9,000,000,000,000. Just Damn.
We are mortgaging our children and their children every day by spending more than we bring in. I think that this is a result of the "Consumer" mindset that we are now trained to have. More stuff = More happy. This is a post for another day, but... I see this in people. I heard over the weekend that the average American has $10,000 in credit card debt. I bet the mode debt is even higher- there are a lot of us who still have $0 in CC debt. This is why we don't care that our govt is doing the same thing. "I can pay this off later (many of us never do) so why can't the govt do the same". They're keeping my money in my pocket. That is true, but their also taking it from you and your kids.
I heard once that $0.18 of every tax dollar goes to pay on our debt. Do you think this is going to get smaller the way we are spending today? If we keep borrowing more, this number will increase- duh. That means that if we expect to keep the same services, we will either have to borrow more or raise taxes. Eventually we won't be able to pay this.
Kirkdiggity will say that the solution is to remove services (or go to the fair tax- get me the book...). The issue is that even with all of the pork in the budget and the "Social" programs, they make up a pretty small portion of the tax burden. We are talking about having to limit the military or highways or medicare to make this plan work. Please keep in mind that madicare is getting bigger and we still don;t cover people right...
We have to raise taxes to fix this. I don;t know how, I'm not a tax lawyer, but that is the only solution to this problem. I will more than happily give back my $300 check from a few years ago if the super wealthy will give up their thousands per year breaks...
In closing......................... These thoughts are conservative thoughts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't spend what you don't have.
Disagree with me. I dare you :-)