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  1. Debt and Taxes

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    20.Nov.07, 15:44 EST Blog edited on: 23.Nov.07, 16:50 EST
    Debt and Taxes

    Working Americans like lower taxes. So does Dr. Ron Paul. Lower taxes benefit all of us, creating jobs and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives.

    Whether a tax cut reduces a single mother's payroll taxes by $40 a month or allows a business owner to save thousands in capital gains taxes and hire more employees, that tax cut is an advantageous measure. Reduced taxes allow more spending, saving, and investing which promotes a healthy economy - for all of us.

    Real conservatives have always supported low taxes and low spending. But today, too many politicians and lobbyists are spending America into ruin. We are nine trillion dollars in debt as a nation. Our mounting government debt endangers the financial future of our children and grandchildren. If we do not curtail spending now, higher taxes and economic disaster will overshadow their future - and yours.

    In addition, the Federal Reserve, our central bank, fosters runaway debt by increasing the money supply - making each dollar in your pocket worth less. The "Fed" is a private bank run by unelected officials who are not required to be open or accountable to "we the people."

    More and more, the government entrusts our economy and our very independence as a nation in the foreign hands of governments such as China and Saudi Arabia, as their central banks also finance our rampant spending.

    We cannot continue to allow private banks, wasteful agencies, lobbyists, corporations on welfare, and governments collecting foreign aid to dictate the size of our ballooning budget. We need a "new" method to prioritize our spending: It is time to reacquaint ourselves with the Constitution of the United States.

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  1. stevekerp

    10:55 EST, 19.Feb.08

    Taxes are, with few exceptions, money extracted from people who earn it that is given to people who re-distribute it.  Every person in the system who is not creating real wealth is simply another parasite on the body politic.  These people may not even enjoy what they do.  "Lowering taxes" sounds good, but our goal should be to ELIMINATE taxes, especially those taxes that are essentially charges for exercising God-given rights.  Our major taxes - 'income' taxes - are the government's way of usurping God's prerogatives and are, therefore, immoral.  Property taxes make us slaves on our own property, or if you prefer, peons. 

     

    I would expect our churches, as the consciences of our communities, to be leading the charge against this institutionalized immorality, but they abdicated this responsibility a long time ago.  Pastors are afraid to preach it (with a few exceptions) and 'Christians' are afraid to hear it. 

     

     

  2. rosiejetson

    05:36 EST, 27.Dec.07
    I agree, "We, the People" do have to work hard in improving our conditions.  As far as paying our debt would not be an improvement.  Why should we pay a war debt to the Federal Reserve when all they did was turn on the printing press.  They did not have the money to back it, but yet we owe them, plus interest.  I say we throw them out of the country, debt paid.

  3. saradinicola

    19:41 EST, 18.Dec.07
    I appreciate Scott Yelich's comments on Debt & Taxes, and also the War page....We, the People will have to get used to doing alot more to get our Liberty.....it has been taken out of our hands for so long that we are used to being complacent, because nothing we do seems to do any good.....But, hopefully those days will soon be over and we won't have that excuse any more....We will have to work to get this nation out of Debt (without even knowing quite how!!----Scott is right, just getting rid of IRS won't fix the debt).....At the same time we will need to get Paul-type people into the Congress and also our home State gov'ts....-Sara DiNicola-

  4. Carlos

    17:52 EST, 11.Dec.07
    We have to do something about that debt our lovely president has bestowed upon us.

  5. Scott D. Yelich

    10:49 EST, 11.Dec.07
    Lower taxes is great, but it seems more should be done with where the money that is collected is spent.

    I forget the exact number -- but is the national debt now l ike $38,000+ for every man/woman/child in america?   What's being done about that -- if anything?  What's going to happen when the government won't even be able to pay the interest on the debt?

    Lowering taxes is great, but the spending is still insane, it won't really make any difference.


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