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Good. We need higher taxes. Especially corporate tax. We ran two pointless wars off of a credit card and are doing the same with countless other conflicts across the globe with nary an increase in the tax burden so the average citizen doesn't have to feel inconvenienced, which may have been the only reason Bush wasn't dragged out of the white house by the people. One way or another this deficit is going to bite us in the ass down the road, and putting off paying it down is just going to make it hurt worse.
There are two things that the citizen hates: taxes, and going without what those taxes pay for. Do we waste a lot of it on frivolous shit? Sure, and I wish we'd do something about that too. But taxes are a necessary evil, and if it keeps the bridges up and the cops and firemen employed and the military at full readiness and everything else required to make this system function, I'll take a tax increase all goddamn day long- as long as the upper 1% are paying their share too.
WOW, talk about a good little patsy brainwshed by fake news and politicians for decades.
You just covered most of the Left's talking points for every election since time began.
NEWSFLASH....no matter how much money we keep having stolen from our paychecks, these corrupt politicians will waste it on their voting blocks, rather than cutting the Debt.
Let me give you an analogy to show you how wrong you are.
If you gave your children a $20 weekly allowance, and they spent it on ciggarettes, would you keep giving them that money. If they also wanted more money from you to pay for some alcohol, would you give it to them?
This is what these corrupt politicians do with our money. THEY WASTE IT ON GETTING RE-ELECTED BY NEVER ADDRESSING THEIR OVERSPENDING.
They refuse to cut wasteful Government programs, social programs, medicaid programs, welfare programs, military programs, etc.etc. etc. because if they did they would lose votes. Our nation is going bankrupt not because of too little miney being taken from us.... it is because they manage and spend our money like drunken fools!
I can not believe we have people like you so conditioned to think we owe these corrupt fools one more dollar.
Do you work for fake news, the Democrat Party or other Leftwing Government agencies?
And you're absolutely right. These fuckers need to be held accountable.
I work on jet tires. There is a screw that goes in the main landing gear wheel of an F18 Super Hornet that holds the brake key to the rim. Without that screw the brakes don't work on landing and people die. That screw is less than half an inch long and is absolutely nothing special. You can get fifty of the fucking things for five bucks at home depot. But it costs Uncle Sam about ten grand. Per. Shitty. Screw.
Do you think I am unaware of our overspending?
I'm well aware that we need to cut spending. But there are billionaires who were born into money and understand a hard day's work as a downturn in the stock market who pay less of a percentage of taxes than you do. They're able to do that because they're able to pay off the same politicians who bitch and complain about people riding the system, and trade campaign donations for tax writeoff after bailout after kickback. Does that sound like a meritocracy to you? We have a system that is too easy to exploit for personal gain, on both the left and the right, as long as you have the investment capital to get started. That screw? Shit, that's just one fucking item that the military overspends on. You have any idea what kind of supplies are necessary to put a bomb on someone's forehead? You have any idea how much money we could be saving if we could actually negotiate prices for those supplies? Because as soon as the "PROPERTY OF US GOVERNMENT" stamp goes on, the price goes up tenfold at least.
Don't think for a second that I'm not furious at Washington. If I were as bad at my job as these politicians I would be in jail for the rest of my life. But this is not my kid's allowance, this is the National Debt. If we go bust, we are FUCKED. Not just the government, all of us. So, we need to do three things: stop wasting money on frivolous shit, from military logistics to sports arenas and useless wars and bailouts (while keeping the programs that will actually create good paying jobs, like rebuilding our infrastructure and advancing science and technology). Start making the money to pay the debt down, starting with the people in this country who actually have most of the money. And finally hold these corrupt fucks accountable to their voters and to the constitution however the hell we can.
We're not on complete opposite sides of this. But we need to face reality: when the country goes to war, we all have to pay for it somehow or another. We used credit- which was a fucking stupid decision-and that's going to cost us more the longer we put it off. Put it off long enough and the government goes bankrupt and turns America into a third- world fucking country.
As always, the Left's only worries of over spending is with the military.
News flash, the cost of never ending social programs keeps exploding (wih no answers or reduction in poverty) and everytime the GOP even tries to cut the rate of growth, these corrupt Democrat Politicians scream how the GOP hates the poor!
After eight LONG years of Liberal socialist Obama, there have been record increases in people getting food stamps, getting welfare, etc.
The easier you make it to live off Government, the greater numbers of people taking advantgae of it.
We need to cut spending across the board, but when people like you keep giving these corrupt politicians a BLANK CHECK, never holding them accountable for their irresponsible over spending by saying NO MORE... NO MORE TAX INCREASES...NO MORE VOTING FOR THOSE WHO WANT MORE OF OUR MONEY.
Our 20 TRILLION debt is not a lack of revenue problem, IT'S A SPENDING PROBLEM!
Stop enabling them to squander our money. You are repeating their same rhetoric.
If we can get some of our taxes back, they will be forced to cut spending rather than continuing their tax and spend insanity. They will do nothing as long as you allow it.
1)Uh huh. I remember the left howling as the deficit sprinted from 10 to 15 to 20 trillion...with nerry a thing to show for it...?
2)I've seen models that refute your claim.
3)The most pesimistic liberal claim I have seen is it will add 1 trillion over 10 years, longer than a two term Trump Presidency, and it assumes there will be no economic growth.
Aaah... I forgot, you get your news from the Clinton "News" Network
Bronto, you are such a spectacular hypocrite that it is beyond a joke. Just the other week you tried to use one of the public forums at BodyBuilding.Com as a news source for the false claim that six of the world's smartest ten people are Christians.
Your double standards are so bizarre that it's legitimately frightening.
Sure I do. We had no one claiming to be a Brit on here for years. Now we have 50 accounts spelling words like "defense" as "defence" and using obviously British lingo such as "rubbish" and "bloody", which no Americans used, nor was anyone using prior to you.
And Quantum used British lingo and spelling, was a Marxist (the first on the site), used your exact language like "bronto you're such a massive hypocrite", and "why do you lie so much".
Quantum also believed anyone who didn't think 9/11 was a conspiracy (the first on the site with this view), was an "idiot". Just like? You
Nobody is interested in your stupid right wing conspiracy theories you retarded neo-Nazi muppet.
Quantum also believed anyone who didn't think 9/11 was a conspiracy (the first on the site with this view), was an "idiot". Just like? You
This Quantum guy sounds like he possibly was intelligent, and that automatically rules out the possibility he stayed here listening to your nonsense for very long.
That's demonstrably impossible because he's demonstrably you.
Why do you persist in deliberately misusing the word, "demonstrably", even after I have warned you about it? You can't demonstrate I am Quantumhead at all, so stfu you abusive moron.
I'm a Muslim, and this man is using hate speech towards me! He called Muhammed a goat humping child molester! MI6! MI6! He's over here!
My people are just trying to survive in the West, even having our women harassed by British whites, and I shouldn't have to put up with his racism and bigotry! Hate speech isn't free speech!
This Quantum guy sounds like he possibly was intelligent, and that automatically rules out the possibility he stayed here listening to your nonsense for very long.
Brontoraptor is correct, you are Quantumhead and a number of people on this site are well aware of it.. You have already been "outed" on the thread that bronto linked to.... You have been on CD quite a bit longer than your Nomenclature account would suggest..
Brontoraptor is correct, you are Quantumhead and a number of people on this site are well aware of it. You have already been "outed" on the thread that bronto linked to...
I just checked and Quantumhead hasn't posted here in months. Hence, if your assertion is correct, there would be no deception involved in changing my username. You claim to have "outed" me for something which isn't any type of crime, so good work Sherlock.
There is however, MASSIVE deception involved in using multiple active sock accounts simultaneously, in order to push your Israeli neo-fascist views onto the world. I've busted four of your sock accounts so far this week, and instead of admitting it, you are now regularly attempting to hold conversations between them. You are an utterly cringeworthy hypocrite @xMathFanx/Amarel/Fascism.
Just the other week you tried to use one of the public forums at BodyBuilding.Com as a news source
And of course, it wasn't the first or the only link that I provided. You and I both are fully aware that it was referenced because you said there were no other sources, thus I randomly copied and pasted links to the first ten links that popped up making the same exact claim in a mass list of links. And? You were wrong, and now you're butthurt.
And of course that is because you said there were no other sources
LOL. I said no such thing you lying bucket of goat faeces. Your lies are so absurd that they don't even make sense. I forced you to use BodyBuilding.Com as a source by claiming that BodyBuilding.Com is the only source? Aha!
forced you to use BodyBuilding.Com as a source by claiming that BodyBuilding.Com was the only source? Aha!
Demonstrably false. You claimed the original source was a "Christian source", then were provided a list of links, one of which is the link you are now referencing. And? You had no response to the other links on the mass list. You simply tried to discredit one while ignoring all of the others.
And then, you provided a list, claiming the top 25 were mainly atheists. I then looked through them and pointed out that they were Muslims, Christians, deists, and or agnostics, and that most were not atheists.
Demonstrably false. You claimed the original source was a "Christian source"
Stop calling things "demonstrably false" if you cannot demonstrate them. Are you stupid? You just accused me of claiming there were no sources other than BodyBuilding.Com. I never said any such thing you stupid lying Nazi.
And then, you provided a list, claiming the top 25 were mainly atheists. I then looked through them and pointed out that they were Muslims, Christians, deists, and or agnostics, and that most were not atheists.
You proposed kinky sex and when I refused you became visibly upset and angry. I tried to tell you I was not gay but you persisted with your unwanted advances and finally I was forced to slap you in your lying Nazi mouth.
You proposed kinky sex and when I refused you became visibly upset and angry. I tried to tell you I was not gay but you persisted with your unwanted advances and finally I was forced to slap you in your lying Nazi mouth.
So now explain to us point for point what that has to do with you saying a link was mostly atheists when it wasn't.
OK, first you grabbed my right buttock. I slapped your hand away but you just grinned at me like a shark about to take a meal.
Next you leaned forward and tried to kiss me, but I rebuffed your advance with a well-placed headbutt.
Feeling sorry for my actions, I picked you up off the floor, along with several of your teeth, and offered to take you to the hospital. However, I became suspicious that you may have been using your injuries to your own advantage when, on the way to the car, you began licking my ear.
You just accused me of claiming there were no sources other than BodyBuilding.Com.
I accused you of claiming the original was a "Christian source" and the only source making the claim. I then provided you a list of links, and you ignored most of them, despite their making the same claim, that most were theists.
Have you not mastered the English language? Of course, you do live in a white supremacist country that claims more diversified countries are full of racists, so what would I expect...
The GOP tax bill does not lower taxes for the middle class and working people. Any possible gains are completely consumed by bills that are no longer deductible (For instance student loan vouchers) or they eventually run out in 2025. The tax cuts for the 1% however, remain permanent.