1. Eliminate Excessive Taxes
2. Eliminate the National Debt
3. Eliminate Deficit Spending
5. Abide by the Constitution of the United States
6. Promote Civic Responsibility
8. Believe in the People
9. Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics
10. Maintain Local Independence
Wow, those all sound nice, but they are kind of contradictory. For instance, you can't eliminate both taxes and deficit spending, much less pay down the debt. Get it?
I mean, every few years, you guys sell the "Supply Side" snake oil, and it fails.
That's what I love about you Progressives, Joe! Someone says eliminate excessive taxes and you immediately jump to the conclusion that they want to get rid of ALL taxes! Supply Side economics worked for John Kennedy. They worked for Ronald Reagan. They don't work for YOU because you're a classic tax and spend liberal who thinks there is only so much wealth in the world and if one person has it then they must have taken it from someone else.
We have already eliminated excessive taxes...and it has led to DEBT...
"The debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts."
David Stockman - Director of the Office of Management and Budget for U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
I agree with Stockman's assessment. Deficits DO matter...and wasteful spending across the board by both Democrats AND Republicans are what have given us the "debt explosion" that he's referring to!
The amount of revenue that the US is taking in is back to pre-recession levels and yet we are looking at trillion dollar a year deficits as far as the eye can see. It's obvious that revenue alone isn't the answer...we have a spending problem.
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