Comments on: Budget group: New Obama budget plan would fail, could cause tax trigger to be pulled

By: seanoleary

seanoleary — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:10:12 +0000

How about clawing back the trillions given illegally to Wall Street, before killing citizens to pay the “debt” ?

By: ARJTurgot2

ARJTurgot2 — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:49:01 +0000

That’s funny, I thought the GOP was busy trying to figure out how to let the states go bankrupt. Having failed at that, failed at repealing the Health Act, failing to pass their own budget they are now studying Murky Obama’s.

Really Jimmy, you need to work on the spin for your curve ball – it’s sagging.

By: pairOdimes

pairOdimes — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:27:28 +0000

What we need to do is limit congress’ ability to spend to some number say 20% of GDP Except in times of DECLARED war. Take everything back to 2008 numbers and pay forward from there. We know what we brought in in 09, 10, and have a reasonable idea about 11. What we have today is Politicians being philanthropic for their own benefit with OUR money instead of working to pay our bills within our means. Frankly, While there are a few in government who understand their role, most do not. Here is a case where I am for throwing the baby out with the bathwater, gg

By: nick.a.adams

nick.a.adams — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:57:11 +0000

Why is it that every conversation about the budget de-evolves down to Democrats saying Repugs and thinking that raising taxes alone will solve the problem, while Republicans call everyone Democraps and thinking that you can just do targeted cuts with no new taxes. Currently we take in 2.1 trillion in revenues, spend 3.6 trillion and have 14.3 trillion in debt. You can tax the top 10% at a 100% rate and we will still run an annual deficit, while you can cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicade by 100% and we still run an annual deficit.

Any mature individual can see that it will take a combination of both to accomplish and real changes to our fiscal crisis.

http://usbudgetfix.blogspot.com/