RockinDeano wrote:Tax cuts were a good thing? I guess bridge collapses and sinkholes and infrastructure are just fine...no need for money to rehabilitate or reinforce said infrastructure. As long as the bridge that fell isn't in your hometown, right?
Taxes are necessary.
Eh, I'm not going to disagree with you. Fuck, I'm studying to become an accountant....who am I to argue the merits of a taxless society.
But I will disagree with something you're alluding to, Dean. Tax cuts aren't the reason why we have a sinking infrasctructure. It's because we're spending our money elsewhere.
Want something to blame for the bridge collapse? Blame this fucking iraq war....Blame the unlimited pot of foreign aide we hemorage out of this country to third world stinkholes that use the money for political capital.
I can't, in good conscience, say that taxation of a person's estate, after a person died...is at all a good thing. Or not indexing the Alternative Minimum Tax for inflaction....If you haven't been hit with AMT yet, just wait a few years. It's currently called the Alternative Minimum Tax. But it really should be called the 'Added Misery Tax'.
There's alot of tax cutting that can be done, to help stimulate the economy....and allow people to keep their money....so that they re-stimulate the economy.
The big problem is the fact that the current criminal in office and his cabinet, have gone hog wild with the war spending, the 'so-called' anti-terrorism shit (which includes the biggest farce agency in the world, the TSA). It's ok to sacrifice bridge and road safety, so long as our basic freedoms are invaded when we travel!
But, yeah, Deano...I get what your saying...I just think that bridges and basic infrastructure need not be dependant on tax increases....but cutting spending in stupid bullshit like the middle east and domestic agencies like the TSA.