Comments on: UPDATED: ‘Tax Cuts Not Paid For’ Says Thief

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:45:36 +0000

I like the TARGETED TAX INCREASE idea too. I could imagine something like your tax return where you are offered a chance to check a box to donate $3 to the Presidential elections. I think if people received an itemized tally of how their tax money was being spent, we’d probably have less wasteful spending.

Of course, under this system those who don’t pay taxes, half the population, would not be eligible to vote.

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:50:38 +0000

McConnell needs to be booted immediately. Jim Demint needs to take his place.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:50:25 +0000

“Not that it will happen but I like the idea of TARGETED TAX INCREASES.”

I like this idea and it has inspired one of my own in regards to social security reform. As a baby-boomer approaching retirement myself, I think back upon the 45 years or so I’ve been paying into the system. I recall a war in Korea, a war in Vietnam, the cold war, the war against poverty, the war against drugs, the first Irag war, the second Iraq war, the war in Aghanistan, and the perpetual war against terror. My suggestion is that we come up with some kind of index whereby all such wars will be financed out of the social security trust fund. Each year when we get the statement that shows how much we are going to receive when we retire, it should also itemize the deductions that will be made to pay for all the wars we voted for and/or allowed our politicians to conduct on our behalf.

By: Myron Frugal Pauli

Myron Frugal Pauli — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:51:50 +0000

Not that it will happen but I like the idea of TARGETED TAX INCREASES.
Calculate your current tax – suppose you owe $ 10,000 for the year. Now you vote for or against the war in Afghanistan. FOR – add $ 1200 as a tax surcharge. (a) If 70% or more votes FOR, then everyone pay the extra tax. (b) If more than 70% vote AGAINST, we leave Afghanistan immediately. (c) If 30% to 70% vote for, then ONLY those who voted in favor continue paying for the war which gets funded at the reduced level. Taxpayers should put THEIR money (not mine!) where their (statist) mouths are!!! Incentivize liberty and thrift!

Repeat the process for agribusiness subsidies, the Department of Education, Housing and Urban Development, foreign aid, welfare, the National Endowment of the Arts/Humanities, PBS, Amtrak, etc. YOU want the garbage, YOU pay for the garbage! Get your grubby deficit/taxing paws off my wallet!

Do not have the gall (chutzpah) to tax/enslave me via currency debasement and inflation. Do not have the gall (chutzpah) to tax/enslave my daughter via debt and compound interest. Pay for your indulgences.

David Gregory vs. Mitch McConnell – BATTLE OF THE STATIST IDIOTS!

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:44:12 +0000

I hope the Christian Democrats + Free Democrats push thru all their reforms before the next elections. Sure the socialists can push back some but not all.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:31:58 +0000

Tax cuts are not paid for? The government can’t “afford” a tax cut? These clowns have the idea that the money is all theirs and they just let us keep a little out of the goodness of their hearts. Wrong, bison breath,the money is ours. The government doesn’t have a holy dispensation to get their hands on it. It’s time the American people, those with cajones and a clear thought process anyway, stand up to the colossus on the Potomac before it grows even more out of control.