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Re: Is the Republican budget fair for all
A very old cartoon as the National debt is a little over 18 TRILLION now!
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Re: Is the Republican budget fair for all
Perhaps we could discuss the topic of the thread, the GOP budget proposal.
What do you like about it?
What could be improved?
Can you discuss something other than Obama?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Just curious, Common. We all pay taxes, and we always will since that is what fuels a civilized society.
How would you think the revenue collected by the people we elect to represent us be spent? I mean, what do you feel should be the government's priorities?
I mean in your little cartoon, you could replace President Obama with any president,past, present, or future standing side-by-side with congress. Of course, it was our money. Government's only source of income is through taxation .......... that's how they get money to buy and do stuff. I don't get the cartoon's point, I really don't.
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Re: Is the Republican budget fair for all
Goose wrote:
I wonder if rank and file republicans even care what is in their own party's budget, or if they will keep whining about "Obama's budget". (Even though it's Congress who has the power of the purse.
A point that seems to escape many Republicans (and some posters here on the New Exchange) !
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Re: Is the Republican budget fair for all
I fear the Obama cartoons may be in response to the pictures I posted about the trickle-down theory of economics. Although I'm not really sure how the two relate exactly.
Anyhow, I was always under the impression that all tax money is other people's money. I mean, *everybody puts some money in, then said pot of money gets divvied out where needed.
( * - everybody does not apparently mean everybody in the traditional sense of the word. The super poor don't put much in because, well, they're poor and they have very little. The super rich and many corporations don't put much in because, well, they can hire people to make sure they don't have to.)
Am I wrong on this?
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Re: Is the Republican budget fair for all
Just curious, Common. We all pay taxes, and we always will since that is what fuels a civilized society.
How would you think the revenue collected by the people we elect to represent us be spent? I mean, what do you feel should be the government's priorities?
I mean in your little cartoon, you could replace President Obama with any president,past, present, or future standing side-by-side with congress. Of course, it was our money. Government's only source of income is through taxation .......... that's how they get money to buy and do stuff. I don't get the cartoon's point, I really don't.
Outstanding post.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.