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Originally Posted by onetime2
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If you "fixed" Social Security in "1990 something" then why is it still a big issue with no one in their right minds believing it will be solvent when the baby boomers hit the system fully?
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They generated a surplus that could have served to patch the hole in the transitional period they discussed. That money went into the huge tax cut.
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How will repealing the Bush tax cuts on the "wealthy" pay for increased Pell grants, medical insurance for everyone, cut the deficit in half in five years, increase funding for education, create a manufacturing jobs credit, extending healthcare benefits to those who are unemployed, extend unemployment benefits, lower corporate taxes by 5 percent, create a job hiring credit, create a "fair trade playing field for the American worker, have the federal government take over Medicare children from the states, allow people aged 55 to 64 to buy into Medicare early, give small businesses a 50% tax credit to offer health benefits, increase funding to Social Security, give the middle class a tax cut, improve port and border security, crack down on illegal hiring of immigrants, and add two active duty divisions to the armed forces? There is no chance that these added programs and expenses can be covered by raising the taxes on the "wealthy" who have the resources to avoid most of the taxes imposed on them.
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"There's more to a plan than a laundry list of complaints." -- Bush
You're right, you know. Just rolling back the tax cuts won't pay for all those things. Also, the new argument that taxing the rich is futile because they can avoid the tax is the full on batshit craziest thing I have ever heard come out of a President's mouth. WTF? We shouldn't tax the rich because they avoid it? Fuck that, enforce the tax.
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Originally Posted by onetime2
How does redeploying the National Guard and Reserves within America for Homeland Security unstretch our forces?
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Well, primarily, it's a lot easier to rotate home to Dallas from Laredo than from Iraq. National Guard troops could work in their own state.