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Originally Posted by Kadath
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.
"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.
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.
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Alright Mr Kerry. It obviously wasn't fixed if it's an issue. Fixing something only to repair it again and again and again until there is more Bondo than metal is not fixing it. It doesn't work. Try something else. The money did not go into the "huge tax cut" because the tax cut didn't happen until after 2000 and this "fix" happened in "1990 something".
The "surplus" amounted to several years of a couple of hundred billion dollars in excess. The debt was what? Kerry's $5.6 trillion figure is as ludicrous as his belief that the Bush tax cut on the wealthy can pay for everything.
The reason the government can't "enforce" the tax laws is the many loopholes inherent in every law, the relatively few enforcement officials the government can employee, the multitude of highly paid professionals from CPAs to lawyers who make a living from exploiting every possible loophole, and, of course, the years of litigation necessary for many of such enforcement actions.
And, lastly, the troops can not just rotate home for "work" since they're "working" at Homeland Security. Unless of course he is proposing some deranged sort of National Guard/civilian employment timeshare which would almost certainly lead to decreased productivity in both occupations.