The Fiscal Cliff -- Is it time?

Reed, you've stated that if congress (republicans) votes for spending, that's all that's required to justify that spending.

So, agricultural subsidies, oil and coal subsidies, and military expenditures to private contractors are now required. Why? Because congress (republicans) voted for it.

Pol Pot seized 100% of his country's GDP. You only advocate seizing 1/2 or a little less than 1/2 of the U.S. GDP. Right now we are only seizing just under 1/5 the U.S. GDP. At the same time, 1/2 the workers are not making any sacrifice. So who are you asking for more sacrifice from?

You are contradicting yourself.

The fiscal cliff deal was passed last year and signed by President Obama as a way kick the can down the road a little further and to set a real dead line to actually do something about our fiscal mess. We are now about a week away from implementing this bipartisan agreement to cut spending and to raise taxes. So what's the problem?

President Obama is now in Hawaii laughing and frolicking as he body surfs the waves of Waikiki knowing full well as "we go over the fiscal cliff," people will blame the increases in taxes caused by the PP&ACA solely on the evil republicans failure to "fix the fiscal cliff." This is a win-win for the atheists/socialists/Marxist/communists.

So what's your problem? We're not doing it fast enough? Pol Pot was a better-informed and more talented professional than most of his citizens and he did it in a couple of months.

You are dissembling again, Guy.

Reed, you've stated that if congress (republicans) votes for spending, that's all that's required to justify that spending.

Oh yes, great idea, I should have thought of that.

If George Walker Bush lowered the rates then why doesn't Barack Hussein Obama II simply raise the rates? After all if the President can lower rates, then he can raise them.

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Like the bloody peasant Dennis said, "I didn't vote for him."

Oh yes, great idea, I should have thought of that.

If George Walker Bush lowered the rates then why doesn't Barack Hussein Obama II simply raise the rates? After all if the President can lower rates, then he can raise them.

Because as we all know, the political cost of lowering taxes (however foolish) is always exactly the same as raising taxes (however prudent).

Not sure if you intended irony or not.

WHY CONSERVATIVES SUCK

Income tax and sales tax do not mean the same thing.

We, my wife and I, are taxed on our income. That would include our investments.

We are taxed on our home.

We are taxed on what we buy at the store.

Some one who makes minimum wage does not own a home, or would they have investments. They are only taxed at the store. If the same person has just ONE kids they pay NO income tax at all. They have a tax at the federal level taken out but they get ALL of that back and in MOST cases a lot more then they paid in.

Our tax system is clearly within the Constitution and that is a head count tax divided by what is spent at the federal level, per year. That was changed in 1913 but that fact does not change the books must be balanced and each year divided by what is owed with the use of whatever percentage applied by law, per person. The per person was not changed and the law clearly states that ALL pay something.

good reason to require testing of basic knowledge of government functioning before allowing voters anywhere near a ballot box!

Rational, and on another subject would you folks please take Murdoch back.
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good reason to require testing of basic knowledge of government functioning before allowing voters anywhere near a ballot box!

I like it.

Sample test.

1. Where does Obama get his "stash" of Obama money from?

2. When the Federal Reserve creates official looking documents using Microsoft Word, prints them on expensive paper, names them U.S. Treasury securities and then sells them on behalf of the Department of the Treasury, what happens to the value of the money currently in circulation?[/quote[

Oooh, oooh! The opposite of upvalue?
That is, of course, assuming they actually use Microsoft Word and expensive paper. Did you work at the Treasury after your stint in the pot-smoking, Satan-worshipping A.F., but before your teaching career?

[quote]3. Name the branches of the government.

4. Which branch of govenrnment has the authority to decide how to spend money?

5. True or False? The U.S. government has been operating on a constitutionally approved budget since President Obama has been in office.

6. In a few sentences, describe the difference between deficit and debt.

7. What is the U.S.'s current budget deficit? (round to the two most significant digits)

8. How many zeros are in "one trillion"?

9. What is the U.S.'s current debt? (round to the three most significant digits)

10. When the government borrows money it pays interest. How much did the U.S. government pay in interest last year?