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Originally Posted by Dean
Democrats are still much more of a tax and spend party than the republicans. Nobody is going to make the Busch cuts permanent, so yes, they are going up no matter what.
Gridlock between the executive and legislative branch is often the best for the taxpayer.
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Sure it is.
Let's keep the status quo! Because $9 Trillion dollars of debt that increases at $500B/year is sooo much better than taking steps to save our country from economic ruin.
You know what's best for the taxpayer? A gov't that spends our money wisely on well designed, efficient programs. i.e. Social Security needs to die, Medicare/Medicade needs to die, defense spending needs to be reduced, and taxes need to be raised.
IMO, we should be able to raise tax revenue w/o touching the middle and lower class income families... all we need to do is close all the loopholes that keep the super-rich from paying their part. Frankly, if you've got $1B in net worth, you can afford to do anything and buy anything, you and several generations of your kids are set for life... and the same is true for someone w/ $2B net worth... that extra $1B makes virtually no difference on the quality of life for the rich bastard that has it, but it would make such a massive difference to the lower 1% if it were spend to help them.
Personally, I'd be willing to pay more taxes if they were being spent wisely and were being used to put our economy back in the green. So really, hoping for deadlock is not "the best for the taxpayer"... having a unified gov't that's willing to buck the status quo and make real and useful changes is what's really best. Will any of the candidates up for election pull this off? Probably not, but at least the democrats are more realistic about the state of the economy.