If people had more cash in their pockets, would they spend more?

people will do what they please regardless.

Tax cuts don't solve everything. If we didn't collect any taxes at all, how would roads get fixed, water treatment plants built and maintained, police, paramedics and schools funded, fires put out?

Bernie Madoff got away with stealing billions because there wasn't enough oversight. The current peanut butter contamination disaster occurred because of lack of oversight- company management was more than willing to leave problems unfixed and endanger public health because they more interested in their own bottom line.

Right now people have been scared into saving mode- give someone a tax break and they're likely to keep it. Obama's approach of having the government spend money to get the economy moving again is the right one.

Building and infrastructure projects mean jobs, when workers have money they buy items like clothing, equipment, vehicles, etc- which means producers of those items make money and pay THEIR bills and purchase items THEY need, and so on...

When there are no jobs, tax cuts don't help- giving a business a tax break isn't going to cause it to hire new employees. Only increased demand for it's products does that.

If Obama hadn't signed his Pork Bill, we'd all feel a lot more secure. I agree with you about the tax breaks. That's what McCain wanted to do. Obama ran on the platform that he'd cut taxes for 97% of the people, but this new bill should keep us broke for two generations.

sorry, paul. It's "fair", not "fare"...and it's "break", not "brake", and the rest of your idea needs work, too. For instance, if you gave everyone a "tax free holiday for a few months or a year", how would you propose to pay all those soldiers and for the weapons they use? And social security? Medicare? Wow, not such a good idea, right? You are young, immature, even, when you say obama should have "just kept his mouth shut". Sorry, but he is not the one who should have done that. All that said, if people had more money, yes, they would spend more--or that is the conventional wisdom. In reality, with all the uncertainty, people are being cautious with their money and it will take awhile for their confidence to return--and it will, eventually. When, exactly, remains to be seen.

Yes. Now Obama wants health insurance benefits taxed as well. That will take a serious bite out of take home pay.

The founding fathers lived in a society where everybody but an elite few raised their own food, wove their own fabric, and built their own houses. If they wanted to travel, they had to own horses or walk. They paid people to row them across rivers.

If you give more money to people who don't have it, they will spend it. If you give money to people who have enough money already, they save it. If you give a lot of money to people who are fabulously wealthy, they sit around and scheme of ways to use it to start ponzi schemes and steal everybody else's money.

I would like to see George Bush milking a cow so he could have cheese to eat. ∠°)

Work harder! Millions of Obama Voters are depending on Us. (The 53 million who did not vote for him!) Taxing our health care benifits as income ... sweet.

It worked for President Reagan when America faced a similar financial crisis.His plan was called Reaganomics.Obama is doing the exact opposite of what worked for the Reagan Administration,This Country is in deep,deep trouble.And This is the Obama Change that is brought upon us.

To answer your question, yes, I would buy more if I had extra money.

Other people? Maybe not. If someone is frugal, then they aren't going to spend money. Or a lot of it anyway.

Some may spend it,Your actually smart to hoard it away.

That's exactly what I am doing.

You should be saving not spending, Spending only weakens your personal position,