What entitlements are people willing to give up, what are you willing to give up?
I think the tax deduction for mortgage interest is unfair to those who rent or those unable to itemize. I personally benefit from the deduction but I would give it up.
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Originally Posted by host
We have enough information now to conclude that the current administration is incapable of sound fiscal management. The "other party" achieved "cred" in this area, massively so....when compared to the deficits that occured before their 1993 to 2001 administration, and more dramatically, after it.
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Congress controls spending and your charge against the administration is unfair in my opinion. Social Security, a problem not even included in the numbers you cite, is a much bigger problem. Bush wanted reform, congress did not.
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The point of this thread is to compare the fiscal management track records of both parties. The accomplishments in that area, of the "other party", in just 8 years, compared to the record of nearly 18 years of the "responsible conservatives", makes the painting the "other party" with the label, "loony left", a ridiculous mistake. Voting for more of this "responsible conservative" total control of the federal government, simply because you don't want to pay higher taxes, or because the "better represent your values", while they bond your children's future to horrific deficit obligations and backbreaking interest payments that further increase that deficit, is mindnumbing to observe.
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Perhaps a comparison of discretionary spending would better support your point. When budget items are mandated by law today that impacts budgets ten years from now who gets the credit, who gets the blame?