Comments on: UPDATED: McCain’s Idea Of A Spending Cut https://barelyablog.com/mccains-idea-of-a-spending-cut/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/mccains-idea-of-a-spending-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-13205 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:46:27 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=30762#comment-13205 Your welcome to join Alice and I in Wonderland as long as you remember that our common refrain is “I want to go home” Home, where politicians don’t lie all the time, home, where a dollar is worth a dollar, home, where there is security. Home, where… Ok, I see where the Mad Hatter, AKA Chairman Ben S. Bernanke just refilled the tea cups with 600 Trillion more of Bush’s stimulus. Another drunken ball, oh! brawl. Boy do I want to go home, but; someone said, “You never can go home again.” I think it was O’Bama.

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By: Brett Gerasim https://barelyablog.com/mccains-idea-of-a-spending-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-13199 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:17:01 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=30762#comment-13199 If you will permit me to join Alice and the both of you in Wonderland for a moment, I would point out that the deal killer for both the FairTax and the present silliness are the myriad of exemptions, deductions, and credits. If you could get a clean, straight rate under both proposals first, the debate would be much more serious. I would argue that the IRS as it presently exists would be unnecessary under either hypothetical straight rate schematic.

It’s a shame all of this has to be hypothetical and far from the political possibilities we have within “the Age of the Idiot,” isn’t it? Ultimately, I fear that we are headed toward the European model of both a VAT and the onerous “progressive” income tax.

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By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/mccains-idea-of-a-spending-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-13196 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:49:58 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=30762#comment-13196 Overhaul the tax system? Have government voluntarily give up their hammer to control the people? Sounds simple. The greatest ideas usually are. Great ideas come from great people. Unfortunately the ideas actually put into motion are from those who are less than great. Our “public servants”.

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By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/mccains-idea-of-a-spending-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-13192 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:33:51 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=30762#comment-13192 “But since I have been called a Pollyanna,” My comment was in regard to “Wonderland” being the place of satire wherein the reigning elites make their own definitions (It is because I say it is) If a politician should offer to abolish the IRS, bring back the troops, close the DOE. We would have to be in Wonderland because we sure as h-ll ain’t in the U.S. anymore. It was a left hand comment, not meant to be considered more than a little cynical humor at the impossibility of good responsible government.

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By: B Lode https://barelyablog.com/mccains-idea-of-a-spending-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-13191 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:03:57 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=30762#comment-13191 I’m with you all the way. I hope McCain will reform, but I don’t expect it.

If we dismantle the IRS, how will we pay for guarding the borders? Are you a supporter of the Fair Tax? I am, but you’re more economically savvy than I and I thought I should get your opinion.

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By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/mccains-idea-of-a-spending-cut/comment-page-1/#comment-13190 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:27:34 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=30762#comment-13190 “Prick up your ears when you hear promises to dismantle the IRS, the Department of Education, and to recall ALL troops, and the installations erected to satisfy their needs, from the over 100 countries in which they are stationed. That’ll be a modest beginning.”
When did you join Alice and I in Wonderland?

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