Replies to post #2709 on RANT & CHAT - Politics Allowed (RANT-PA)

[Mapleton]

You cannot just cancel debt, that is unethical and bad for international relations. You're creating a ludicrous solution for a serious problem.

If I were a candidate for president, I would propose to raise the taxes back to where they were previously and continue on the path to paying off our national debt. Then I would seek to regulate measures that would cause financial instability in the government. The government is not a bottomless pile of money, it comes from the tax payers, and the money the government takes in should be spent effectively. I would cut spending of unnecessary things, and then pass that saving from our newly debt free country to the taxpayer.

But the national debt needs to be paid off. It will boast the economy and make our country more financially stable. However, dirtbag politicians like Bush don't care about what the country is going to be like 10 or 20 years from now. They want to make an immediate impact, no matter the long term consequences, in order to satisfy the ignorant and greedy public. Think about it, what politician would run on the platform, "let's raise taxes for a decade, and then, a long time from now, our country will be able to do great things." I doubt that would be popular platform. Responsible? Yes. But popular? No. The general voting public doesn't care about responsible. Republicans want their tax breaks, democrats want their programs, and they don't want to wait for them. They want it, and they want it now now now.

I doubt if we'll be able to solve our problems because of the general ignorance of the public when it comes to the government's fiscal issues. The public will always elect the clowns that give them what they want because they're ignorant and selfish.