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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
Ok, what do you think will help the economy? Bush did the tax cut thing, how'd that work out in the long run? Didn't end up so well in my opinion.
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I'd cut taxes and I'd also cut spending significantly. That means military and entitlement programs as well as discretionary spending. It's not the government's role to decide what businesses and causes are the favored ones that they will help out with my money. Let the market decide what businesses succeed and which will fail.
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
Really I read your posts and it appears you can't help but blame Obama for everything. At some point will he be the second gun man on the grassy knoll?
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If it's something the federal government has a role in and it's during Obama's presidency, then it's Obama's fault.
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
A couple posts back you stated-
First Bush spent Future Money instead of paying as he went. He didn't even include in his budgets the cost of the wars. Bush took the Dem policy of tax and spend and turned it into "borrow and spend." I no fan of tax and spend but borrow and spend bothers me much more.
Second you're claiming "Obama's have been well over $1 trillion for the last couple years" Exactly how many years do you think he's been in office? |
If borrow and spend worries you, then multiple trillion $ deficits should really worry you. Obama's 2010 budget had a deficit over $1 trillion. His proposed 2011 budget has a deficit over $1 trillion. I've read claims that we don't get back below $1 trillion deficits until 2014 and I think that was after optimistic assumptions about the recovery were made.