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Nobody is proposing or theorizing "new entitlements".
That's just your misinformed ideology talking.
............ Right.............. like Obamacare...........
Can you tell me, Padcrasher, when the US government, in the last 100 years, has ever used any revenue to pay down the national debt????
What exactly do you think that they will do with any "new" revenues, without the constraints of a Constitutional Amendment for a balanced budget? Why, of course, they will blow it, like they always have.
To trust the feds with increased revenues would be like putting automatic weapons in the hands of children. As much as I like full auto weapons and children, I certainly do not mix the two until the children have become fully responsible and trained in the use of firearms. Given that, I would never trust the feds with any "increased revenues", as they are less reliable and less trainable than children.
Funding on education now are later is chicken feed compared to the bloated military budget and the money that could be gained from restoring the raises in taxes on the rich a few basis points.
That's were the money is....right wingers can moan all they want about some pissant programs for the poor....they don't amount to squat.
Everything by itself is "chicken feed" but when you add them all together we have over $10 trillion.
The "spending problem" we have in this country comes from two wars, the Bush tax cuts, and spending by the federal government specifically designed to help the economy (stimulus, auto bailouts, etc.). The other half of the equation is the sharp drop in federal revenue.
Stop the wars and the Bush tax cuts.
i am growing tired of tell you how wrong you are, so lets do this. we tax every penny of personal income over $50,000, take ALL profits from EVERY business in the country(after all they are evil), stop ALL spending on the wars, and lets see what happens.
i can tell you what will happen, businesses will do just enough to break even every year so as to avoid paying any taxes, and the rich will do just enough to make $50,000 or less, again to avoid the excessive taxation, and the economy will go into the tank because NOTHING IS GETTING DONE.
the spending problem we have is all the social entitlement programs, and the lack of government employees contributing a fair portion of the health insurance and retirement benefits, congress included, and elected officials flying around the country, and the world, on the taxpayers dime rather than pay their own way, the president and vice president excepted, though they need to cut back on travel as well.
Obama's health care plan is law....It's a done deal.
There are no more entitlement plans in the works.
Anybody that says this is lying.
Um.. people are now asking for universal healthcare..
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And BTW the additional money required to fund "Obamacare" amounts to less than 2% of the Federal budget.
Yet 2/3 of the 15% of Americans who didn't have insurance will now have it.
Lie.. obamcare is a TAX plan, not an insurance plan..
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