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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   The never ending story from the spend, borrow,go to war, borrow some more, spend some more, Republicans.
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   wmconelly said, 3 months ago

   Judging by the presidencies from Reagan to date, as a country we can tax and spend and get along reasonably well, or stop taxing, keep spending, go to war and double the national debt in 8 years. Boy, this is a tough one. What are the recommendations from Howie Carr and Mount Rush Mo? Cut taxes, kill the various national health services, lay in ammunition for the Bushmaster and breed children for endless war? All r-r-r-right. Thanks for the deep analysis, guys. And now back to your regularly scheduled commercials…
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   narrowminded said, 3 months ago

   ^^You both forgot to add….Rubio sucks! Get with the program or new trolls will be found.
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   Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago

   Tax and spend Democrats or spend and spend Republicans…
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   mikefive said, 3 months ago

   @Kylie2112

   “Tax and spend Democrats or spend and spend Republicans…”
   ♦
   Either way, at some point, we will cross a threshold that we will wish we hadn’t.
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   Donald Airey said, 3 months ago

   Hey Jerry, how about a cartoon where an Elephant is standing at the same bookshelf saying “I’ll just take the ‘Spend’”. That would be very funny!
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   Donald Airey said, 3 months ago

   @mikefive

   I disagree. At least with a tax and spend policy, the current generation feels the pain and may, eventually, decide to do something about it. The Republican’s policies have no pain (you mean you can prop up the economy and cut my taxes at the same time, what a great deal!). The next generation will have to pay for this one’s mistakes because we believed in the GOP’s message that no one needs to pay.
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   “And she will pay for them”.
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   mikefive said, 3 months ago

   @Donald Airey

   There is an anthropological (though simplistic) example of taxation in which the tribal chief needed an assistant chief. The tribe’s hunters had no problem getting food to feed these two amilies. The tribe’s shaman thought he and his family should also be provided for and got a couple of his apprentices in on that program. The tribe’s hunters could no longer adequately provide for their own families, but the head gazoots kept getting what they thought they were entitled to. The hunters eventually rebelled.
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   You can write any scenario you want for a conclusion of what the hunters may have done.
   or how the “government” used their largess. It doesn’t matter. It’s only a tale of how the tribe collapsed under excessive “taxation”.
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    Donald Airey said, 3 months ago

    @mikefive

    You are making my point for me. Yes, the hunters rebelled because they had to pay for the excesses of their tribe’s hierarchy. If you want to continue to abuse this example, if the Chief was a Republican, then the hunter’s children would have to go out and do the hunting. They’re just children, so they don’t have a say in how the tribe is run. The hunters never feel the pain, so they never rebelled.
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    mikefive said, 3 months ago

    @Donald Airey

    Your point was lost when you switched from Democrats taxing to Republicans taxing and changed my scenario to fit your political prejudices. Addressing any fallacies in.the scenario as presented would have been more appropriate..
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    lonecat said, 3 months ago

    I think this is funny. Not completely fair, but still funny. A clever way to make his point.
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    moderateisntleft said, 3 months ago

    @lonecat

    Yes, but the Republican section has the same “SPEND” book, but the “TAX” book is replaced with a “BORROW” book.
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    jack75287 said, 3 months ago

    How about both parties getting smacked down by the American people making them tax a little less and spend a whole lot less and selling some of the over 3 million acres of federally owned land. That would be a nice start.
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    coraryan said, 3 months ago

    I thought the Dems wrote both books. Why would they have to buy them?
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