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War expenses, expenses for natural disasters ... should be handled the same way a homeowners association deals with unplanned for expenses with special assessments. Balance the budget. Special assessments will help us have more involvement/control ... and hold Congress and the President(s) accountable.
War expenses, expenses for natural disasters ... should be handled the same way a homeowners association deals with unplanned for expenses with special assessments. Balance the budget. Special assessments will help us have more involvement/control ... and hold Congress and the President(s) accountable.
Natural disasters are out of our hands. Nobody could predict Katrina, the Joplin tornadoes, or whatever. To balance the budget though, they'd need to raise taxes in this economy. They've been lower than they have in the past 30 years.
How about we start by saying that if Congress is going to authorize a war, THEIR children go first to the battle lines, their salaries get cut and their taxes go up. That way we'll know if they're serious.
How about we start by saying that if Congress is going to authorize a war, THEIR children go first to the battle lines, their salaries get cut and their taxes go up. That way we'll know if they're serious.
That'll help, but that's not good enough. Their salaries and children alone won't cover the cost. Then they'll just send their children to live overseas the way George Romney did with his boy Mitt, or their kids will join the Air Guard or something. Make sure you raise their taxes at least a good 90% and cut their salaries by half.
Lets have the 51% that pay no taxes and live off of welfare, food stamps, EBT cards and local handouts sell their expensive cars, their AC units, their X-Boxes, PS3's, Nintendo's, 50" HD TV's, all their gold and diamond jewelry, and give up drugs for the remainder of the war and turn all the money they made off their sold items back to the government.
That makes this raise tax rates more equitable for the remainder of Americans who do pay taxes and aren't baby factories....
Lets have the 51% that pay no taxes and live off of welfare, food stamps, EBT cards and local handouts sell their expensive cars, their AC units, their X-Boxes, PS3's, Nintendo's, 50" HD TV's, all their gold and diamond jewelry, and give up drugs for the remainder of the war and turn all the money they made off their sold items back to the government.
That makes this raise tax rates more equitable for the remainder of Americans who do pay taxes and aren't baby factories....
So you characterize the majority of Americans as gold wearing drug using welfare and food stamp recipients who drive expensive cars ?
You seem to hate Americans more than Al Qaeda does.
I would favor a surtax amendment where the tax automatically is eliminated at the conclusion of the war, on a prorated 1040 basis. So if war starts in Nov, 2013 and ends June, 2015, one pays 2/12 surtax in year 1, 12/12 in year 2, 6/12 in year 3. Surtax should be flat tax on the first 20k Gross, not adjusted taxable income. All benefit from the effort, and all should pay the same surtax assuming they gross 20k.
I would also want an amendment prohibiting Congress from adding the surtax for any other purpose. In short, make it a "No vote required" situation.
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