US Taxes

[Stonecutter]

Originally Posted by Xantar

Even ignoring the details of what exactly has happened to the burden on the middle class etc., I will say that I don't have a problem with tax cuts in principle. It's when taxes are cut but spending isn't also reigned in that I have a problem with. The Economist has repeatedly criticized Bush on this score, and they're about as anti-tax as you'll get in a mainstream publication. When the government is borrowing money year after year, inflation must inevitably result.

That's a hell of a point too.

Taxing like Republicans while spending more than Democrats is going to **** the economy up long term.

This administration doesn't seem to care about that though.

Where in the hell is this 62 billon for Katrina relief going to come from? You've got 200,000 people displaced, most of whom were poor, and they're each going to get $310,000? You can not possibly tell me that the property they lost was worth that much. Infrastructure is going to be taken care of mostly through the private sector and while the poor who lost their homes certainly didn't have property insurance, how many of them actually owned their property? I'd really like to know because anything that was rental property was definitely insured. Sadly that 62 million seems like a nice price to pay compared to that 200B number I saw floting around the other day.

And by the way, that war ain't ending anytime soon, how much more is that US crafted ****hole going to cost?

But of course, the upper 10% shouldn't have to pay any more than they already do...