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   nomad2112 said, 5 months ago

   YAWN Just another straw dog …

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   michael said, 5 months ago

   Hey, I just went to a local political meeting where everyone agreed we should cut taxes in half, but not a single person had an idea on what to cut, other than one guy who wanted to get rid of public schools.

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   Bill Ewing said, 5 months ago

   The only way government makes money: They print it!

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   harleyquinn said, 5 months ago

   I am all for Funding the government. I am just tired of them taking it as I make it. Not letting the money I make grow in this economy.
   FAIR TAX!

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   DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

   So, HQ, which would YOU prefer to do without: your military or your police forces?

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   Chikuku said, 5 months ago

   i THINK MAYBE THE OLD COOT IS BEING SARCASTIC

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   harleyquinn said, 5 months ago

   Do with out what? I am talking about a better way of Funding the Government. But I guess people like Obama and the like only see the solution to a problem is to throw more money after it. So Maybe you are right I should not suggest a better way to collect money for our government and grow the economy. They will just spend it anyway.

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   kreniigh said, 5 months ago

   Wow, HQ and DC just re-enacted the cartoon, more or less. Nice job!

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   sclark55 said, 5 months ago

   Who’s this about? Neither conservatives nor liberals talk this way. If asked, most people say the govt needs to get BACK to just paying for education, parks, water, law enforcement, emergency personnel, food standards, and the military. Who is the butt of this “joke”? This isn’t based in any truth, so it’s not even funny. (btw interesting, I note he left welfare out.)

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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    kreniigh : yeah, that was a little redundant, wasn’t it?

    On the other hand, we just proved sclark55 wrong: both liberals and conservatives DO talk this way; we just DID!

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    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    I worked in the fields the old guy is talking about being fed up with and this is EXACTLY the mantra we heard from “conservatives” for 25 years!! Except, they wanted airplanes that couldn’t fly, $68,000 missiles, and million dollar bombs to drop on goat herders.

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    harleyquinn said, 5 months ago

    My spin is different, I say fund it but why not let our government be funded by the money I choose to spend not make. Big difference. On one hand The government is taking money from you coming and going. The more you work the more it takes. I thought that is what we needed in this down economy, more people working and making money? Lets just ask NY how well that Tax the one making the most is working out for them?
    Fair TAX the government gets it money by making this country a better place to sell goods! It will have to because the more it sells the more money it can collect.
    
    Right now Obama is shutting down car dealerships that make money. I mean that dealership only employees a few and their income tax will not be missed???

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    Copperdomebodhi said, 5 months ago

    HarleyQuinn: Glad you brought up NY. Wall Street proves that how hard you work and how much you make aren’t as closely connected as we tell our kids.

    Calling a spending tax “fair” is a joke. The less you make, the more of your income you have to spend to survive. “FairTAX” would slam low-income people who work 60 hours a week to make ends meet. It’d be a handout to trust-fund babies who have never worked a day in their life.

    People who earn more should pay more in taxes. The more you have, the more dependent you are on a stable government to protect your wealth.

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    Nurb said, 5 months ago

    In the last 30 years republicans have decided that you only deserve something if you have the income to afford it. Which is fine with consumerism, but not when it comes to education and food standards.

    republicans seem to want religion to control the government, and make it so only the well to do get access to decent living standards while supported by the lower classes….

    …in other words, they want to go back to the feudalistic dark ages XD

    also, this new system where I can’t see comics older than a day without registering and can’t see past a week without paying is a real PAIN

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    wittyvegan said, 5 months ago

    Cut the military budget and lower taxes from the savings.

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    Right_On said, 5 months ago

    wittyvegan - BHO will have a hard time cutting the military right now. If you understood anything about unemployment, you would know that the military is not counted as employed, but end of service military is counted as unemployed. So a reduction in force will have a double impact on unemployment numbers.

    We are facing double digits already, reducing the military would have a dramatic effect. However, increasing the ranks would have a positive effect.

    Why can’t we cut welfare? Why can’t we drop the earned income credit? We could lower taxes from those savings.

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    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    Right_On, you’ve asked a serious question, and by God I’ll give you a serious answer. Because the relative cost of welfare versus the military is trivial. It’s complicated, because a lot of the Iraq war costs, for example, are emergency spending hidden off the budget, and there are questions about long-term costs, e.g., VA benefits, but I’ve seen estimates that put Department of Defense base spending – just enough to maintain readiness – at 52% of net discretionary spending for 2008. Add in the cost of the War on Terror, and it is more like 65%.
    
    For all the conservative wailing about welfare, it’s really not that large a percentage of the budget, and has been being cut by successive Republican presidents since Reagan.
    The main problem with the military budget now is that we are fighting – and losing – two wars largely without any allies, one of which was supposed to generate oil revenue, and hasn’t. Not for us, anyway. And I will contrast this with a previous effort in the region by a Republican president, to prove I am trying to be fair: Gulf War I actually made a profit. (I have a friend who worked in the Reagan and Bush White Houses - he knows.) We had many allies who contributed money if they didn’t contribute troops. Why? Because George HW Bush was a well-informed internationalist who believed in diplomacy. Some here have sneered at Obama’s diplomatic approaches, but Bush I did bleeep well with his!

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    macb423 said, 5 months ago

    You Americans are under-taxed, and you get poor service because of it. Stop whining. Most Canadians are satisfied with the taxes we pay, and a majority say they would even pay more. The difference is that we see results, like health care and public transportation, while so much of yours goes into pointless military adventures.

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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    As a Canadian, I am PROUD to pay taxes, because I know the money is going to the betterment of my society (and not to blow up innocent women and children in foreign countries in the advancement of profit margins of multinational corporations).

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    oldlegodad said, 5 months ago

    But we have so much more fun…and we don’t put gravy on freedom fries.

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    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    Motive, you could factor in the cost of gasoline in the U.S., it’s been vacillating high/low ever since we crossed the Iraqi border due to supposed “instability” of Persian Gulf resources according to the petroleum INCs. So we were the cause of the price spikes, but what you pay at the pump is masking the real cost, factor in the War, casualties, VA benefits to survivors, pensions to families of the dead, taxes to pay for all of this. Among those of us who recognize that war as useless waste, just another “feather” of credit in W’s cap. And you won’t hear the right wing discuss war as an “unnecessary expenditure” as they call any responsible public infrastructure spending put in front of them. As an aside, Venezuela can only market their sub-pure petroleum if the per barrel price is above $70, we gave Chavez a huge gift of national funding and popularity by doing that for him.

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    Right_On said, 5 months ago

    Motive, I see you understand what we call “the cost of freedom.”

    If you want to be socialist like the Canadians that post here, then you can scream about the war et.al.

    But if you want freedom, you will have to understand that there will be a cost involved.

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    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    Whose freedom, Right_On? Why are we paying for the war in Iraq? If we’re leading the fight for freedom everywhere, why not in China? Tibet? Africa?
    
    The cost of freedom is worth it. The cost of a mismanaged war we should never have started and which makes us less safe (as a recruiting poster for Al Queda) is absolutely unacceptable to me, especially when it takes that money from the pockets of the American people – and my children.

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    deadheadzan said, 5 months ago

    Many, many times we go to war for no good reason- take going into Iraq- what was the reason for Vietnam?-the so called domino effect? Who makes money on wars- the war profiteers like Halliburton and Blackwater.

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    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    RO is a flagwaver who’s a good little party member, if the GOP marches in lockstep approval of the war W imposed on all of us that’s good enough for him, the right wing consistantly places politics above public good and/or logical reasoning, it’s their party doctrine.

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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    Write_off, why is it that all the other industrialized countries manage to gain freedom WITHOUT attacking and conquering other countries?

    The “cost” that we pay is nothing more than civilized behaviour and getting along with our neighbours.