[Notary Sojac]

The chickens are coming home to roost and it is people like you and my daughter who will pay the real price.

If this $700 billion is needed, right now, to avert Depression II, then it's certainly appropriate to enact a tax increase, right now, to pay for it - instead of putting the burden on our kids and grandkids.

[KansasGirl]

Personally, I don’t like tax hikes. How about the alternative of cutting $700,000,000,000 from the federal budget. Senators can be the first to make sacrifices. No more salaries, no more travel expense reimbursement, no more taxpayer paid meals, no more air-conditioning... Senator Biden should find that all very patriotic!

[what's up]

then it's certainly appropriate to enact a tax increase

Exactly what the Dems love.

Only problem is, this raises unemployment. Which is also what the Dems love.

[kabar]

LOL. $700 billion is cheap at half the price. You are going to pay for my generation's SS and Medicare. $700 billion versus $60 trillion--not a bad deal. Bring on the tax increase. Hell, the USG will have an annual budget deficit of half a trillion by the end of Bush's term.