Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
The simple fact is that SOMEBODY is going to have to pay these taxes. We have a $10 trillion debt, and budgets keep growing. At this point, higher taxes is not as great a threat to our well-being as the huge debt. The Repubican ideology has shifted away from the idea of true fiscal responsibility to emphasize only the low taxes side of the equation. If you are going to keep taxes low, you also need to keep spending low, and you also need to have low debt. The governemnt has shown itself incapable of keeping spending low, and the debt is already high, so we will need tax money to pay for those two things.
Less taxes = more business = more net income = same or more amount of tax revenue generated for the government without hurting working class or businesses.

And I strongly agree with low spending and this is something that has been irritating me for YEARS!!! Ever since the last year or so of Bush 41's administration up till today. Spending is definitely out of hand.

This is why I actually think that Democrats are really more fiscally conservative than Republicans. The Democrats are honest about the idea that if we really want to have government spend money on the priorities that Democrats represent, then it will require tax money -- Democrats pay for the things they buy. Republicans are not honest about that. Republicans cut taxes while simultaneously increasing spending and just pile on the debt. Now we are getting to the point where that accumulated debt is a real threat to our prosperity --- it is definitiely a far greater threat to our prosperity than raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year.
Fiscally conservative would require for them to stop making so many social programs. Not that they aren't needed but honestly they go overboard wit them.

Fact is that both parties increase spending... hell look at Nancy Pelosi adding an extra 150billion to try to do another stimulus package.. WE JUST HAD ONE.. which I also thought was a stupid idea. The first stimulus package made sense because we had a fairly healthy economy that was just on a decline.. now we have an economy that is pretty hurt (not horrible.. but beyond the help that little $300/600 checks can provide). People are not going to spend this money or put it back into the economy. They are going to hold onto it instead preparing for hard times; which isn't a bad thing but the idea here is to try to prevent the economy from GETTING to that point. I'd rather the government do something with the 150 billion that would aid the economy and prevent it from ever reaching "hard times".

Both parties are out of control and it is undeniable. Some things I stand up for in the republican base because I have conservative views.. this doesn't mean I have modern day republican views.. but when they are wrong I do call them out on it as I see fit.

Democrats and Republicans a like are out of control and honestly have us held hostage by this 2 party majority system.