^^^^ best post of this thread.
we need to cut spending plain and simple. I don't want anyone paying more in taxes. we all should be able to keep our money. We have a bad mentality here than the gov't has first count of the money we earn and whatever they choose to leave us should be more than enough and we should be thankful for getting any....
we need to ask ourselves, when is enough enough. People need to realize that corps don't pay taxes. They just input that into the cost of whatever good or service they produce and pass it along to the consumer. so any increase in taxes to corps will basically mean you and I pay more for whatever it is they produce -> this is not to say that if corp taxes were eliminated today we would see a decrease in prices. we won't likely see that, but would see the increase on the upside.
we have a leaking bucket and the politicians all want to keep filling it with our tax dollars vs fixing the damn thing. @ss backwards thinking -> that's what makes a politician a politician. We are all over qualified
One thing that's a problem is how many people think that 'keeping your mong' is going to mean the same income, you just keep more of it, when actually these big 'spending cuts' if done in the wrong areas are going to leave people 'keeping' more of less - so instead of keeping 60% of $100,000 they'll find themselves keeping 80% of $50,000.
What happened, they'll wonder. Well, the changes are designed by exactly one interest group - the wealthy - who will transfer more wealth to themselves. Shocking!
The question for citizens is whether they want to be suckers who fall for the right-wing propaganda to get them to agree to plans bad for them, and good for the rich.
Hey, let's have a flat tax! A fair tax! A balanced budget amendment! We can go third world!