Voted4Dubya Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 What do you guys think should be done to resolve the national debt? Raise taxes? Cut spending? Both? If it keeps rising we are gonna have some serious problems on our hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie2008 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 pay it off I'm tired of this ridiculous policy that spends money we don't have to pay for things we don't need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voted4Dubya Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 look, I'm all for tax cuts, but we can't go on spending like crazy. Its going to get to a point where taxes will have to be raised though if we don't do something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twentytwo Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Quit spendings thousands of dollars on putting flowers in medians. Rebuilding the same road once every three years, especially when theres not a need for it. There are roads that need alot more help than the ones theyre working on now, all over ET. So basically stop spending on things we dont need...and just start secretly printing money, pretty easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voted4Dubya Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 lol, or a $257 million bridge to nowhere in Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBTS Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 A 15% flat rate tax system for all citizens--across the board. We'd be running a surplus in 18 months--and everyone would have more money in their pocket. Also, when we have a surplus, we can't reallocate those dollars to more pork--we need a constitutional ammendment that makes it a requirement that all surplus dollars be used to pay of debt until no such debt exists. In about 20 years, we can deal with what happens to the surplus when debt doesn't exist. We also need to colonize Iraq. That would rapidly lower oil prices for America because we could tell OPEC to go fly a kite--and it would make the job of kicking Iran's tail just a little more convienient and justifyable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Amen, to that flat tax!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie2008 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Al Gore proposed a flat tax in the 2000 election...interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colligula Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 How much does the drug war cost American taxpayers? $40 billion per year and climbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Two words: CUT SPENDING!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colligula Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Originally posted by Colmesneilfan1Two words: CUT SPENDING!!!!!!!!! tanslated into republican speak = YANK STUDENT LOAN PROGRAMS. REDUCE HEALTHCARE BENEFITS IN FAVOR OF CORPORATIONS. (but were in favor of waging illigitimate wars and wasting TRILLIONS of dollars, or persuing the continuation of global misery) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBTS Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Originally posted by Aggie2008Al Gore proposed a flat tax in the 2000 election...interesting. All Algore ever proposed was a Lockbox for social security. Steve Forbes (Rich Republican White Guy) is the biggest supporter of the flat tax. Al just adopted it from Forbes after he realized that he had nothing else to run on--amazing after a 20 year career as a senator! But--as in all government programs--the flat tax will never fly because it's not nearly complicated enough. It doesn't encompass the "be all things to all people" mentality that pervades the halls of congress and the streets of Washington DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Originally posted by Colligulatanslated into republican speak = YANK STUDENT LOAN PROGRAMS. REDUCE HEALTHCARE BENEFITS IN FAVOR OF CORPORATIONS. (but were in favor of waging illigitimate wars and wasting TRILLIONS of dollars, or persuing the continuation of global misery) Like I said: CUT SPENDING!!!! It's very simple. :whome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachb Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 quit spending millions or billions, whatever it is, to go the moon and mars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie2008 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Or gee, maybe we shouldn't invade countries based on bad intelligence? How much has the war cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie2008 Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 And BTW, all the government does with student loans is set a lower interest rate than the bank does, and you have to qualify academically. It doesn't really cost the taxpayer anything because they are payed back with interest. It actually generates revenue in the long run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Do away with entitlement programs... Make social security private.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voted4Dubya Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 Originally posted by ObserverDo away with entitlement programs... sometimes these actually help people. Its why we have them, to help people get back on their feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sideliner Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Get rid of all the current leadership............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Originally posted by Voted4Dubya Originally posted by ObserverDo away with entitlement programs... sometimes these actually help people. Its why we have them, to help people get back on their feet. NOT the Government's Job... Where in the Constitution are the Entitlement Programs... "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Even if you say "promote the general welfare"... that does not say PROVIDE for the general welfare.... While it does make one feel warm and fuzzy... or just make you feel like you don't need to do anything... just let the goverment take care of it... The government is only good at a few things.... most things they are very inefficient at.... a dollar goes to the goverment to take care of a problem.... typically less than 40 cents makes it to the problem.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voted4Dubya Posted May 3, 2006 Author Share Posted May 3, 2006 Yeah, I was reading Reagans first state of the Union address last night, and he highlighted a lot of the stuff your talking about. But Observer, if we ended all this stuff, what do we tell the people such as the Senior Citizens that have been paying into all this stuff their entire life? I'm no constitutional expert, so I'm not gonna try to debate you on that part. But besides the few that abuse the system (and its rather sad that it does happen), Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security do a lot of good. Mainly for Senior Citizens and Baby Boomers who have been paying for this stuff their entire lives. And I think we should give people the choice of whether or not they want to privatize their accounts or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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