Replies to post #55376 on Your Economy (No Politics) (YE1)

[fugeguy]

Right now the government is wasting the money.

Giving them more will not solve the problem.

Let's have a 30% across the board tax increase on everyone- including the 40+% who pay no income taxes.

However, we would couple that with a 30% across the board decrease in all spending- every single program with no sacred cows.

Defense, SS, medicare, medicaide- cut it all.

Also, a 5 year freeze on increases in government spending with increases tied to inflation after that.

Never happen because the government will never give up that power of the purse.

[Somatochlora]

Too bad taking more from the people who work to earn it to feed the waste and corruption that is the federal government will not fix anything. It will just allow them to spend like drunken sailors for a little while longer and make the inevitable crash all the bigger.