Post a commentAnyone who tries to align the economic cycle with the electoral cycle is a fool and take political credit for it is a fool. The problem as I see it is only half are paying the dues these days and the half that arent are getting way too much.
Rob & Roy need to look at reality. Fairness? Elite Club? The problem with "fairness" is that the morals/ethics of fairness can always be twisted around by rich whiney activists who have little else to show for. Some club this is. The true financial elite continue to slide around the taxes from the loopholes created by Republicans and Democrats or favors from their friends in the BRT. Meanwhile, the middle class gets slammed and shrunk for the sake of shifting their hard-earned money to the members of society who often refust to work while getting free/subsidized housing, free food, free healthcare, free transportation, free afterschool programs, free money, free etc. while careening around Philly in beamers & SUVS sporting expensive jewelry and clothing all without ever paying income tax. Some club! Society does not need taxes to operate. I am not a libertarian by any means (quite the opposite - but I just don't want my taxes going into wasteful spending or spending that will make society worse), but the reality is that Switzerland has held out against aristocratic rule for the past 2000 years and still attracts people in part because of its low taxes. Apparently the majority of French soccer players and pop stars live in Switzerland as do North American stars like Tina Turner, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, and Yoko Ono. Weren't Vermont or the Rockies good enough for them?
It is not the taxes that I complain about, it is how the taxes dollars are used. I have no problem with my taxes dollars being used to support schools, libraries, swimming pools, etc. I do have a probelm with my taxes dollars being used to pay for choice wars, city council lap dancers and other high priced city worker's that don't work.
If Social Security is so great, why do we need 401k's? If Medicare is so great, why do we need private Medicare supplemental insurance. If everyone loves Social Security, why not make it voluntary? These two are useful idiots who will exchange their freedom for the scraps that fall from the Democratic Party table. Their given just enough to keep them voting Democrat and seem to love it.
The point is that the folks on the right want all of the benefits of Social Security and Medicare and our nation's longstanding socialist systems but they don't want everyone to receive those same benefits. They prefer to live like the Lord of the manor while the majority of the people fill in as the serfs. It's like Republicans being gung-ho for war but only if your kids are going to be the soldiers. We live in the world's greatest superpower and to continue to do so that requires taxes and a larger government. We will never have a small federal government. That's the reality.
Leonard is either an idiot or ignorant. Not sure which...he talks about what a great country this is because he gets SS and Medicare...why is that? because he didn't work enough years to fend for himself or get a pension that the pittance SS gives is so good? Does Mr. Leonardo realize that if people keep espousing these so-called wonderful programs, this country will soonlook nothing like it does now or should look. The key to this being such a GREAT country is Hard Work, not your hand out...
Longshanks....you're not too well informed either. Everyone can have what they want....it's just NOT supposed to come from the Government! It's supposed to come from hard work which equals success. Who wants to be beholden to anyone especially the Gov't??
The little secret is that in the past, lower taxes have resulted in increased economic activity which increases the taxes that the US has taken in (see Reagan tax cuts, JFK tax cuts). 2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000 dollars isn't enough, so Obama has to spend an extra 1.4 trillion to make ends meet?
NO ONE deserves to get anything for nothing. Not the way this country became so great. Should only get back what you put into anything. Work for your own Success and Security is what made this country
SO keapitreal. You don't get SS or Medicare. Right?? Neocon TWIT
No Felicia, I don't take the pittance handout of SS. I will not rely on it for my retirement. Instead I will WORK hard and save my own hard earned money for a secure retirement...understand? Also, I am not someone who plays disabled who in turn takes SS and Medicaide as many Dems do....
Longshanks you seem to know an awful lot about what people on the right want. Let me boil the whole right vs. left thing down. People on the left want to be able to live their lives however they see fit. People on the right want to live their lives however they see fit. People on the left want someone else to pay the bill. In response to your assanine assertion that we want social security and Medicare all to ourselves, you truly have no idea what we on the "right" want. I am willing to relinquish any claim to SS benefits and Medicare benefits for the rest of my life if the gov't is willing to stop collecting those taxes from me right now. The gov't can keep every penny I've paid into either system with my compliments. Let me go it alone. I GUARANTEE most conservatives under say 50 years of age would take that offer. It won't happen because the gov't needs US to keep paying the way for the 50% of people in this country that pay ZERO and get to enjoy the same benefits. You know nothing about conservatism that you don't get from MSNBC.
Another thing....if these social programs are such a great deal, then why isn't participation voluntary? Why does the government need to compel it's citizens to particpate? Longshanks and his friends feel this is a left vs. right issue. The fact is that it is a non partisan liberty and self determination issue. Give Americans the choice of going it alone or partipating in the social justice, welfare, Medicaid, etc. system. But the gov't can't afford to take that chance! Not with more than half the country paying little or nothing into the system. The mass exodus of tax PAYERS would cause the collapse of the system the social justice participants depend on. Margaret Thatcher said it quite well...the problem with socialism is that sooner or later your run out of other people's money.
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