Posted on 01/03/2011 9:23:22 AM PST by Libloather
Where did foreign aid of all kinds come in? It is difficult to believe that USA must remain a benfactor for so many foreign projects when the contributing people for such aid are screaming for their own relief.
“Reuters”
61 percent of Americans are complete idiots with no clue about economics!
raising taxes on ‘the rich’ will not bring nearly enough revenue to do anything.
The government must cut entitlement spending and the rest of the crap they spend money on.
Every election, one side or the other says it, but so far...nothing substantial.
I don’t see how anyone could get elected if they proposed cutting their own spending. They wouldn’t even get to the primaries ‘cause their own party wouldn’t allow it.
YOU CAN NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET BY TAXING THE RICH OR TAXING ABYONE FOR THAT MATTER. GET A CLUE!
You balance a budget by simply not spending more money then you have access too.
No matter how much money the Federal Government EXPECTS to get by any tax rate, they will WITHOUT A DOUBT spend more then they take in. It is the nature of Government to want to grow. It only grows by creating more programs. More programs cost mopre money.
Until the people say NO MORE NEW PROGRAMS NO MORE TAXES NO MORE DEBT RAISING nothing is ever going to change.
“60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll”
Yep, completely unbiased group of participants there....
That’s why we’ve always opposed Mob Rule. Once they figure out they can vote themselves the keys to the treasury, it’s all over.
That was a 1915 theme of the bolsheviks. So, they had a revolution , taking the Czars wealth, and everyone stayed poor to this day. Excepting ruling party members of course!!
There are not enough rich people to balance the budget.
The MSM keeps sucking people into class warfare resentments.
And how are we going to balance the budget without cuts?
This poll is rubbish - the worst of MSM GIGO!
I’d like to say this is a push poll but there is a lot of truth to it. Way too many American adults have the mentality of teenagers—give me what I want and have Mom & Dad pay for it. Give me government benes and have the “rich” pay for it. Who cares if government workers have premium benefits? “The rich” will pay for them. Gimme gimme gimme and let someone else pay.
Part of this is the media's fault. They could educate people about the reality of the situation; that Social Security and Medicare either must be cut, or the whole system will collapse.
But, it's not really that surprising that the overwhelming majority of poll responders are complete idiots. They are certain that there's just some bucket of money lying around out there, that just hasn't been grabbed yet.
How can we know when liberal pollsters lie/skew/manipulate the data to push progressive bs as what Americans want?
One thing they are about to find out is that very soon, they will run out of other people’s money.
A Clinton aid once floated the idea that if they took every dollar over $200,000 that a person earned, the government would get $290 Billion in new revenue and even more next year. Another aid responded, “what next year?”
They must have polled Welfare recipients.
The only “RICH” Americans who should receive a heavier tax burden are our POLITITANS.
Yeah, but call it "democracy" and suddenly the same action becomes legitimate.
I think they need to define “rich”. Rich to me means someone with enormous assets beyond any human requirement. So let’s tax Buffet, Gates, Soros..etc. At least 1% of their net assets every year. Plus..let’s not let them get a tax break for donating billions to trusts they control. Why should they decide what happens to their billions tax free?
I have a feeling that they would stop advocating taxing the “rich” if they were the target.
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