archer wrote: Maybe, just maybe, it's time the Republicans stopped this train wreck.
Sure, do what Archer wants, support the status quo of spending much more money than we have.
We might need to fire some of those fascist park rangers. Cancel the multimillion dollar order for new china for our overseas diplomats. Shut down the Department of Education. Or we could go the Archer way and kick the can down the road and give our children an IOU.
Thanks Tommy, for paying these Obamacare subsidies for your dear old dad.
IF you had ever actually read any of my posts you would know that is not what I have been advocating.......I believe in pay as you go government and a balanced budget....so far the GOP only wants to work on one side of the ledger, spending cuts.....amd they are willing to bring down our economy rather than work on ways to increase revenue and help dig us out of the hole we have created.
That is because they properly recognize that we don't have a revenue problem at the federal level, we have a spending problem there. Regardless of tax structure, tax rates, income or excise, the federal tax revenue has averaged 18% of GDP since the end of WWII. If the spending levels are at or near historic averages and we are running trillion dollar annual deficits, then your argument might have some degree of merit, but that isn't the case at all. Federal spending is well in excess of 18% of GDP at the moment, which means that this is the area that is causing the problem and which needs to be addressed. Not revenue, spending. Bring spending down to historic norms and we will talk about raising more tax revenue to pay towards the principle amount of the existing debt.
You are forgetting that we live in a very different world than that of your historic spending. I'm sure a horse and buggy would cost less than a car, but it won't cut it in today's world.we don't fight wars the same way, infrastructure costs more to build and maintain, technology...both the creation and the protection from, costs us far more than the simple use of a telephone. Then, of course, there are the services that the citizens have decided, through their votes, that they want their government to provide. If you were advocating for taking this country back to the horse and buggy days, then your argument might have merit.
"The closure of the World War II Memorial was just the start of the Park Service’s partisan assault on the citizenry. There’s a cute little historic site just outside of the capital in McLean, Virginia, called the Claude Moore Colonial Farm. They do historical reenactments, and once upon a time the National Park Service helped run the place. But in 1980, the NPS cut the farm out of its budget. A group of private citizens set up an endowment to take care of the farm’s expenses. Ever since, the site has operated independently through a combination of private donations and volunteer workers.
The Park Service told Claude Moore Colonial Farm to shut down."
"I am amazed that more people aren't aghast with the idea that a federal government shutdown means a denial of access to federal lands and facilities rather than a absence of services provided by government employees.
When you give the government power to provide, you give the government power to take away."
archer wrote: You are forgetting that we live in a very different world than that of your historic spending. I'm sure a horse and buggy would cost less than a car, but it won't cut it in today's world.we don't fight wars the same way, infrastructure costs more to build and maintain, technology...both the creation and the protection from, costs us far more than the simple use of a telephone. Then, of course, there are the services that the citizens have decided, through their votes, that they want their government to provide. If you were advocating for taking this country back to the horse and buggy days, then your argument might have merit.
