Originally Posted by
Rylan1
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It doesn't raise everyones taxes... the ones it does they can afford it... I also have been hearing lately that it is possible that McCain would raise taxes... basically that it couldn't be ruled out... kinda like what happened during 1st Bush admin.
I think raising taxes is an essential part of responsible fiscal management. If we want to spark the economy... we need to lower debt by more revenue and less spending... We also will need to continue and expand social services due to unemployement and bad economy...etc.
No way can continue war w/o more tax revenue
2nd if we want to get economy going we have to take part in a project such as alternative eneregy .. which includes drilling, wind/solar, as well as vehicles. The other thing would be our infrastructure... roads and bridges..
Well here's the difference between liberal thought and conservative thought. I believe people should do all they can for themselves, then city, county, state then federal governments. People don't need more welfare, they need better jobs. The government isn't going to foster an environment where that is going to happen by raising taxes on those creating the jobs.
Overall our economy has done well the last 8 years considering all the hits. We were going into a recession when bush took office and then 9-11, corporate scandals came to light (Enron etc.) none of which were Bushes fault. In the wake of all of that we reached historically low un employment rates and still at under 6% fairly low unemployment.
I know the rust belt is hurting worse than most but hopefully someone in DC will wake up to the fact that the low value of the dollar is giving us a prime opportunity to bring back some of our manufacturing base. Toyota and BMW both just announced they are going to start building more cars in the US that will be exported.
I don't see the need to explode federal spending programs. Raising taxing in a tight economy is folly. What needs to happen is proper priorities need to be placed on federal spending. That is one of the reasons I am hopeful McCain will turn out to be the right man at the right time, he has a long record of opposing senseless spending.
