from Coma White (jsts22)
We are something like 6 trillion dollars in debt. How are we going to pay this back? An increase in taxes is really the only thing that could even dent that debt. And when we have to raise the taxes because we are so far in debt, the cons will blame the democrats, even though it was the conservative agenda that caused taxes to raise in the first place. And this debt has interest tacked onto it too, so the longer it takes to pay it off, the more it will increase. If you know basic economics, you know that you can’t spend more than you have (cutting taxes during a time of war).
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17 Comments Received
March 9th, 2009 @1:39 pm
Well the first step is to get Bush out of office!
March 12th, 2009 @2:48 pm
I figured since Bush ran it up, he could take some of his war profits and pay it himself
March 14th, 2009 @7:52 pm
Electing any of the people who’ll appear on CNN tonight isn’t the answer
March 15th, 2009 @8:31 pm
How about this, create a balanced budget and get rid of excess spending. STOP SPENDING!!!!!!!!
Cum’on Hillary, do my tax dollars REALLY need to go to “remember” Woodstock??????
March 18th, 2009 @5:17 am
i think the only way would be to elect REAL conservatives. Definately not the democrats and most of the republicans lately seem to have been merely posing as conservatives.
March 19th, 2009 @3:54 pm
Inflation
When gas is $60,000 a gallon, we can pay off the debt easy.
March 20th, 2009 @11:49 am
I hate to tell you this, but we may never. But, we will be assimilated into the NA Union, & our money merged with Canada, & Mexico, into something just like Europe. It is what the big banks want, total control of all the money.
March 21st, 2009 @4:11 pm
bring our guys home and quit financing the war…and quit giving money to other countries and for goodness sake get rid of bush
March 22nd, 2009 @6:37 am
Try 9 trillion, And it’s not going to be easy. Electing Ron Paul would be a good start. The usual gang of democrats will spend more on social programs, and pro-war republicans will spend more on the war. Pro-War democrats like Hillary, are the worst of both worlds.
The first step would be to balance the budget, we’ll never ever pay it off if we keep borrowing more money. Ron Paul will do this.
March 24th, 2009 @9:27 am
Cutting taxes is a tried and true way to increase revenues. It has worked every time it has been tried. The key to curtailing the debt is to curb spending. Creating bigger government in the form of national health care will make the spending on the Iraq war look like chump change. Raising taxes guarantees 2 things, less jobs and less taxes collected. And quit bitching about taxing corps. They provide jobs to people. Raising taxes on their profits is stupid. Do you honestly believe that those increases in taxes are not passed on to the consumer? Wake up!
March 27th, 2009 @8:16 am
Elect Ron Paul.
March 29th, 2009 @2:54 pm
History shows that you need Democrats in charge.
March 30th, 2009 @1:45 am
We could start by never electing another republican president.
April 2nd, 2009 @1:32 am
Nuke our creditors.
April 2nd, 2009 @11:59 pm
Get out of the crazy war in Iraq.
Establish foreign policy and talk to both friends and enemies alike to establish better relations.
Rebuild the military and close the border between Mexico and the United States.
Establish trade policy that protects american workers
Increase taxes to where they were before President Bush lowered taxes for the upper income levels when he took office.
Commence a dialogue with members of both political parties for regulating effectively those government agencies that have been rendered powerless by this Republican Administration led by Republican George W Bush/Cheney and supported by right wing followers.
I’m a believer in the two party system, but I also believe that the right wingers have taken over the Republican party and as such the real conservative members of congress have little to say because they simply won’t speak out against what they percieve as fellow Republicans.
Thanks
April 5th, 2009 @9:32 am
I am neither a conservative nor a liberal (in the modern sense) but a libertarian. Both the Demopublicans and the Republicrats like to spend money we do not have. I once believed that Republicans were the party of small government but after six years of a Republican President, a Republican Congress and a government that grew in size I came to see I was mistaken. The vast majority of what the federal government does is not even authorized by the United States Constitution. If we could simply reduce the size and scope of government to its constitutionally authorized functions we could reduce the debt rather quickly. Will this happen? Not if we keep reelecting members of congress who vote for unconstitutional laws and spending. Only a handful does not.
Raising taxes will have the unintended consequence of hampering the growth of the economy.
April 8th, 2009 @2:57 am
I say we just sell our country to China. It won’t be much different than right now. Debt problem solved.
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