Obama Wants More Taxes; Surprised? (interstate, Brown, lobbyist, election)

[brownbagg]

of course he does, he gave a trillion dollars to his buddies and nothing happen.

[JohnnyMack]

Originally Posted by Haakon

Or take the absurd (to a liberal) route and CUT spending elsewhere to spend more on infrastructure. Why is the idea of living within a budget and reducing excessive spending so completely alien to some people?

Okay so lets cut oh say 20% from the military budget....

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by JohnnyMack

Okay so lets cut oh say 20% from the military budget....

Sure. And let the tax payers keep it instead of just letting the government squander it elsewhere

[JohnnyMack]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Sure. And let the tax payers keep it instead of just letting the government squander it elsewhere

No, that 20% goes to the Highway fund to rebuild our infrastructure.

[wrench409]

He doesn't want the tax money per se (history and the numbers prove lower taxes RAISE tax revenue).

His goal is to punish the rich in any way that gets another vote for his agenda.

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by JohnnyMack

No, that 20% goes to the Highway fund to rebuild our infrastructure.

No, they already collect for that. It just needs to stop being spent on things like commuter rail and bike paths.

[TheDusty]

I'm more concerned with how the tax money is spent. I have no problem with moderately high taxes, but that money should be going to improving the standard of living here, not decimating the standard of living in the Middle East or lining some corporate lobbyists pocket.

[nvxplorer]

Originally Posted by wrench409

He doesn't want the tax money per se (history and the numbers prove lower taxes RAISE tax revenue).

Kansas.

His goal is to punish the rich in any way that gets another vote for his agenda.

LMAO! There's a huge segment of society that doesn't think in black and white/good and evil/reward and punishment terms. Try it...you'll like it...

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by Haakon

Or take the absurd (to a liberal) route and CUT spending elsewhere to spend more on infrastructure. Why is the idea of living within a budget and reducing excessive spending so completely alien to some people?

Ok, let's start by slashing funds for the DoD...

<watches right-wingers run from thread>

Originally Posted by T-310

Safe to assume no new taxes for the next 2 years.

Thankfully.

Two more years of conservative policies acting as an anchor on this nation.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

First off there are companies like Google that get away with outright murder with their overseas tax avoidance, secondly the infrastructures is in desperate need of repair. They don't even want to raise the gas tax that hasn't been increased in around 15 years to pay for highway improvements.

So we have a need and it needs to be addressed or we can just continue down the same path.

Well then just remember the bridge to nowhere, the repaving of Murtha airport and all those hike and bike trails and turtle trails that the stimulus money went to for "infrastructure".