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John1921 Wrote: Oct 27, 2012 2:11 PM
I have a different angle. Every year, the name of every person receiving govt welfare payments is tossed in a hat. Maybe one in a thousand names are drawn at random, and the winners shipped to a big hunting preserve in Montana. Left without clothes or food, the winners are then made fair game in a free-fire zone for any taxpayer who wants to sight in his rifle or practice his tracking skills. I'm guessing the balance between welfare recipients and tax-payers might shift real fast.
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D272 Wrote: Oct 27, 2012 1:52 PM
"Oooh, it's not FAIR that that person has so much more than me!" Actually, it's not fair that you steal from others without their permission. Fair is everybody paying their EQUAL share of the burden. If you think $12,300 is too much, then you need to start talking to your Congressman about how to reduce his spending. The deficit would disappear in one two-year election cycle; the debt would disappear in ten election cycles. America would lead a global boom in capability.
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Barack Obama really does have a plan for the next four years. When he thought he was speaking off the record to the Des Moines Register the other day, he said he wanted to negotiate a "grand bargain" with the congressional Republicans. It would include spending reductions and tax increases to reduce forecasted federal deficits.
About the same time that the president was giving his interview, more than 80 CEOs of some of the nation’s largest companies were making a similar announcement. To get the country’s fiscal house in order, they said, we need both spending reductions and...
Beware the "Grand Bargain"