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5.21.2004
Alternate Reality Show : Episode 12 CNN.com - Hastert questions McCain's GOP credentials - May 20, 2004: I swiped this from Kos. "Hastert: 'If you want to see the sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda. There's the sacrifice in this country. We're trying to make sure they have the ability to fight this war, that they have the wherewithal to be able to do it. And, at the same time, we have to react to keep this country strong.'" Hey, what's that hiding behind the wounded soldiers? Reread the above quote. If it makes sense to you, you must be one of the few people who still take it as an unsupported fact that wanton tax cuts make our economy stronger. Draining the treasury will, of course, magically make weapons and armor and salaries appear. Not to mention the tax cutting induced bonanza of cash that will be used to pay for lifetimes of disability and medical care for those injured in fighting. Ahem.. I word about taxes. If you don't mind sticking around for a few? What am I saying... you're here, you must be bored and hungry for my opinion? Its all the rage these days to talk about tax "relief". Its as if the GOPer's sit around with word association flash cards. Taxes.. Relief.... Taxes..relief. They are rigid in their rhetoric. The word "relief" implies a burden. A burden is something that is imposed on people to makes their lives more difficult. So does that term apply to taxes? "Amen!" says the choir. We all want less burdens on our lives. So we should follow the logical conclusion and rid ourselves of the taxes imposed on us by the evil government. Because we get nothing from them. Why did we even have them in the first place? Are they relics of some former despotic regime? Our huddled masses yearn to be relieved! um, yeah. There's just one flaw with their otherwise brilliant plan to provide people with the goodies they want. At some point there is going to be a bill for all the other goodies that the government hands out. There is just no way that we should expect government to provide any services to us if we refuse to pay for them. Wishful thinking seems to lead us all to believe that someone else will pay those taxes or that by voting to cut ourselves some beefy refund checks the government will actually have more money. For consistency I wait with no anticipation whatsoever to watch as Bush stands up in the Presidential debates and tells the people of the U.S. that we should not expect any new programs or entitlements from the government because "Dammit, I'm serious about shrinking government!" Sure, we'll see that. Even though last election year I watched with absolute horror as Gore and Bush devised elaborate schemes to spend that phantom surplus. I fully expect to get sick of the phrase "My plan...", as each side rolls out there "plans" to fix every ill that plagues our nation. Kerry should (but won't) stand up at the debates and say "We're in debt up to our freaking eyeballs so it would be reckless and irresponsible to propose any new spending before I put the government back on sound financial footing". We're seeing a clash of ideologies. What do you get when you spend billions to equip and supply an army halfway around the world for years? And pass tax cuts too? Deficits. The transfer of our tax monies to debt repayment is reckless. |
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