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US taxpayer here. I agree that any tax cut is just going to increase the federal deficit further, which is a terrible thing to do. I think that most people are frustrated with the tax system not because they don't realize that taxes pay for legitimate "conveniences of civilized life", but that SOOOOOO much of our taxes are spent wastefully on programs that are not in the interests of the people of the United States. Some politicians convinced some Americans that the Iraq war was a good idea and an important enough cause to spend our money and more importantly the lives of our young men and women on, but most of us knew that it was a bloated, bullshit war from the beginning.
I'm not as concerned with the stimulus plan as I am with rewarding financial institutions for being bad at their business. It is like taking a gambler who is $50000 down at the roulette table and handing him another $50K. I'm sure your luck will turn soon! As has been said before, if you our I run our business into the ground, we are out of business, but the big banks get a bailout?!?!
This is another thing that bugs me about the Conservative political movement holding up Ronald Reagan as a paragon of their ideology. His economic policies were a total failure. He reversed significant progress toward energy independence. He had almost nothing to do with the fall of the Soviet Union (predicated more on the collapse of the price of oil than on any political posturing). And he was almost certainly affected by dementia/Alzheimer's in his last 2 years in office. Yet he is held in such high regard by the Republican party. I just don't get it. Other than just saying that he is one of the greatest presidents and naming airports and roads after him, I've never heard anything that would support the level of praise that Reagan seems to engender.
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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