 communicatrix says: Republican Ben Stein steps up to the plate and calls out the lunatic financial solipsism of his fellow conservatives. Yay! I both agree and disagree with him. I agree that we need to balance the budget. I disagree that raising taxes is the way to go. The government cut taxes and is now taking in record revenues. It isn't the government's income that is the problem, it is government spending. We need to stop with the earmarks and the pork and all government spending should be frozen whenever we are working with a deficit. In the end, the real problem is with us. We complain about deficits, but we continue to elect the biggest DC pigs such as Stevens from Alaska and Byrd from WV and dozens of others because of what they bring back to us. Instead we should be kicking their crooked butts out of office and replacing... I don't think it's an either/or situation. Drastic times call for drastic measures, and it's time for the wealthy to kick in their (fair) share. That said, profligate spending shouldn't be supported, either. Seems like a pretty straightforward proposition to me. The question should be about equitable taxes. The rich definitely (with a few notable exceptions) are NOT paying their share, and the gap is widening. As to the fairy tale that one can maintain a rich functioning society by cutting taxes is just that, a fairy tale. A civilized just society is a costly undertaking and trying to maintain it on the cheap (dog eat dog capitalism) may be just peachy for those hiding their money in the Bahamas. Far too many greedy non-empathetic bastards read and believed too much of the Ayn Rand sociopathic gibberish. |
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