Well, the "American people" have to pay for SOMETHING.

[loro mi dicevano]

Senate Republicans were going on about, "We can't raise taxes, OMG NO! To up the funding for veterans' hospitals, we have to RAISE TAXES! Bad! No! Won't do that!"

Know what? We have to pay for SOMETHING. We can't just spend and spend and spend and NOT pay taxes to pay for it all. Ugh. *bangs head against wall*

[info being]

1. I'd rather not pay taxes...

at least the way these fucks use our money. I'd rather see the system collapse then fund more of their crime.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Depending on the amount of money you make

I'd suggest that really, we the people don't pay that much in taxes as it is. To me the real issue is that corporate America doesn't pay its fair share. If they did, most of this tax/lack of services crap would disappear. At least that's my take......

[AllegroRondo]

4. Robert Reich on NPR this morning

said basically the same thing. The biggest factor in the deficit is that income taxes on those making over $200K are at the lowest level in over 50 years - in both tax rate and % of GDP.

[info being]

7. The biggest factor is the military budget

We pay plenty of taxes...but it all gets funneled into the wrong things by corrupt politicians.

[porphyrian]

2. republicans want America to be owned by the Chinese.

Guess who's covering the debt they're running up?

[walldude]

5. This is the first wartime administration

that hasn't asked the American public to make monetary sacrifices to help the war effort. Well not the rich people anyway...

[FreedomAngel82]

6. I agree

Jerry Springer was talking about this on his show yesterday. Saying how if you want things in your town (like public education, libraries, funding for reconstruction) you have to pay for it somehow. We're all citizen's and we all have to do our share. It was a really good segment. You can hear it on his show at http://www.springerontheradio.com from the archives from yesterday.