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   donaldo said, 6 months ago

   inaccurate and clicheed
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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   Raise taxes? That’s the dem’s mantra. It’s the only solution to every problem. And if that doesn’t work, they will raise taxes more. It’s worked so well for the failing socialist countries.
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   dapperdan61 said, 6 months ago

   Maybe Republicans would feel better if it’s called user fees. It would be limited to those making over 250k a year. Bottom line is most Americans will not see their taxes raised under Obamas plan & will accept entitlement cuts in return. With no compromise we’re all going to get hosed paying higher taxes with draconian spending cuts across the board.
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   Gore Bane said, 6 months ago

   I know! Let’s set up a smoke screen to focus on taxes, so no one will remember that we have to cut spending! That work for you guys?
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   ninety_nine_percent said, 6 months ago

   Austerity leads to economic stagnation.
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   JoeCoolLives said, 6 months ago

   At the risk of sounding simplistic (an’ possibly paranoid), the world IS getting more dangerous an’ unstable by the minute … the sequestration (think: ‘military spending CASTRATION’) will hobble our defense apparatus an’ leave us vulnerable to all our enemies (there are many…). We must avoid this by making some intelligent an’ appropriate spending cuts to the defense budget as well as to other bloated budgets, including entitlements. America cannot afford to advertise to the world that we are implementing huge an’ arbitrary cuts to our defense establishment because we cannot seem to put on our big boy pants an’ make the hard decisions that we’ve been procrastinating about for ‘way too long…now we’re down to the eleventh hour, an’ the two-minute warning. None of the useless blather brothers an’ sisters in the two houses of Congress should leave town for Thanksgiving or for anything else until this is fully an’ properly resolved. To do otherwise is the height of irresponsibility an’ self-serving arrogance…We need a Congress that can man-up an’ woman-up an’ take their jobs seriously…
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   jack75287 said, 6 months ago

   @donaldo

   “inaccurate and clicheed”
   
   A trillion dollars of borrowed spending a year is “inaccurate and clinched”. Only one e.
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   jack75287 said, 6 months ago

   @JoeCoolLives

   I agree with almost everything you said except we have already advertised we our cutting military spending for years.
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   ruff said, 6 months ago

   Anyone with a few operating neurons should realize by now. The only way we get out of this mess we are in is to reduce federal spending AND raise taxes.
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    jack75287 said, 6 months ago

    @ruff

    Ok but what spending we have already cut back military spending.
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    mtretter said, 6 months ago

    @ninety_nine_percent

    And over spending eventually leads to austerity!
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    Stipple said, 6 months ago

    When people get hurt watch their eyes, the eyes get huge to take it all in and remember.
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    The cliff will hurt and eyes will be wide..
    What do you think they will see while hurting and angry?
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    Historically they cut to the chase and generally pick the correct target. Ouch for somebody.
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    Quipss said, 6 months ago

    So the USA places around 80th globally in federal government spending. But lets ignore the rest of the world
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    DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

    Obama has said a dozen times he is willing to cut spending AND raise taxes, and indeed to compromise with the Republicans in working out solutions. But still, the ONLY thing conservative cartoonists write about is half of the story – the taxes. Bloody liars.
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    ansonia said, 6 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    His plan calls for $577 billion in spending cuts.
    That’s $3 in tax hikes for every $1 in spending cuts.
    The ANNUAL budget deficit has been around 1.2 trillion. The deficit for October alone was $120 billion. Raising taxes on the 2% will increase revenues about $829 billion. That’s $829 billion over a DECADE.
    See the problem?
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