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When liberals "cry" about "fiscal responsibility" their only complaint is that we're not taxing enough.
And if they speak about cutting spending, it's only military spending that they cut. So until everything is on the table, including entitlements, and government employees, there is no reason to make any concession on taxation. Obama's plan in a nutshell. Tax "rich". Cut and run from Iraq. Eliminate military. Cultivate class dissension. Turn our country into France. Make entitlements the term of the day, further socialize medicine, increase regulation on the division between investment banking and commercial or consumer banking, create a huge new unaffordable bureaucracy for health care [why does this concern nobody but me?], eliminate all drilling options for oil, continuation of the opposition for nuclear power etc. At least in France, they allow for nuclear power.
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If there is one person on this board who doesn't want socialized medicine its me.
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If I knew nothing else about a candidate, this policy statement alone would probably disqualify him. I deal extensively with Medicare, CMS and other governmental regulatory agencies. The last thing we need is another one. I'd probably do well, but it will grotesquely increase the cost of health care and make physicians' lives harder. IT will suck. I have never experienced any business sector improving efficiency due to regulation and it is never easier. Everybody, if they were informed, should be screaming bloody murder over this proposal. Why are people ignoring it as the worst idea to come out a man's brain?
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the study only looks at lost tax revenue. Spending would be separately considered.
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How about this question then - How much revenue would there be if wasteful social programs were cut compared to lost revenue from tax cuts? My guess would be that the tax cuts would be a smaller amount.
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well, depends on how much you cut each. if the same amount each, then you're right. If you cut programs by $1 you'll get $1 in revenue. If you cut taxes by $1, you can probably get 10 cents back and you'll lose only 90 cents.
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Republicans rail against government, yet when in power cynically use government as a mechanism for shoveling tax money to special interests (all the while pushing more & more tax cuts, pushing deficits into the stratosphere without regard for consequences.) Prime Example - FEMA, where Bush's first Director, Joseph Allbaugh, whose primary qualification for the appointment was being in charge of a horse racing organization, and upon taking the reigns of FEMA declared it to be an overgrown entitlements program. He went on to severely damage the capacity of FEMA to operate effectively, insulted & disregarded the professionals in charge of operating its key components... and finally left, to lead the effort lobbying FEMA, for Halliburton. If government is necessary, in an admittedly limited capacity, why not elect the people who actually believe government can & should function effectively? Absence of regulation in health insurance has been a disaster & helped make our health care system both very expensive and left giant gaps in basic healthcare for a growing part of our population. It can be argued that Reps are no longer true conservatives, but for the dwindling group who put their faith in unrestricted economic darwinism, the idealistic calls for dramatic reductions in governmental spending are eerily similar to equally unrealistic ultra-leftist ideas like having free bicycles strewn about a city so anyone can use them to travel about. Time for an intelligent dose of realistic solutions, some of which involve government. Last edited by Ma'ake; 06-21-2008 at 06:56 AM. |
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Wow.
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