Seems the White House talk is to raise taxes and cut benefits for social security solvency.... what happened to the 2044 date before Bush came to be president? Seems we've robbed that fund yet again!!! for other things like the war.... and illegal immigrants entitlements.... when are we the people going to clean house ?????
btw: I'm a republican...not a freakin Liberal so don't go there.. all the dam politicians are the same ...!!!!
bulletbob36
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According to the evidence compiled by Judicial Watch in the last ten years, Hillary Clinton is among the most corrupt politicians in our nation’s history. She devised a scheme to sell taxpayer financed trade missions to Communist China in exchange for campaign contributions. She presided over the theft of the private FBI files of former Reagan and Bush staffers. She led the campaign to slander the women sexually and otherwise abused by President Clinton, and has lied time and time again to investigators, to her colleagues, to the press and to the American people.
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What do we do with our tax dollars? I don't really get the problem with taxes...tax dollars, for the most part, get pumped back into the economy, right? Entitlment people eat, drink, buy gas, go the doctor, buy tvs, etc. They drive the economy as much or more than anyone else, because they are more likely to spend EVERY DOLLAR they get.
Taxes are necessary if you want a standing army, etc. Right now, our corporate tax structure is about as low as it gets. My multinational corporate employer paid less in actual taxes last year than I did, even with revenues over $60 billion.
This is basic math, folks. If you collect less in wages than you spend, you end up in debt. If you do it for 6 years, without stop, all the while taking jobs that pay you less and less...eventually you are in a hole so deep it's almost impossible to get out of. That's where we are. The income stream has been constrained, while at the same time, we have spent so much on the war machine we are now beholden to Japan and China for huge portions of our economy. That's not good policy.
In WWII, the government went to the people for that debt....they established war bonds and people bought them expecting low interest in return. It was a pride thing for the nation. They can't do that now, because if we did, it would slow the economy, and lord knows we can't do that. We have to have it all.
We are suffering the affects of consumerism on a scale never before seen on this planet. It will be interesting to see how it turns out...I don't think very well no matter who is in what office. What I do know is, we have been told for years to fear the tax and spend liberals...in return, all we got were the spend and spend...and spend and spend conservatives.
Oh...and another thing to keep in mind...companies like Haliburton that just moved it's headquarters to Dubai don't keep our tax dollars in country. At least the illegal immigrants keep most of the money they earn in our econcomy...they have to live, after all. Haliburton takes that cash and keeps it offshore...I don't see how that benefits us at all.