Silencer - no kidding. I'm not in favor of business welfare for ANY company, but supporting the failures is even worse! If they're not successful, it's like burning the cash we're giving them since there's no return on it.
Silencer - no kidding. I'm not in favor of business welfare for ANY company, but supporting the failures is even worse! If they're not successful, it's like burning the cash we're giving them since there's no return on it.
Basilikos
Icecrown US Alliance
Mixed Group of Unholy DeathKnight, Holy Priest, Elemental/Restoration Shaman, Arcane Mage, Balance/Restoration Druid
Second Mixed group of Protection Paladin, Discipline Priest, Fire Mage, Affliction Warlock, Affliction Warlock
5 Balance Druids - Shelved at 65
Holy Priest and 4 Warlocks - Shelved at 71
Protection Paladin and 4 Shadow Priests - Shelved at 60
5 Elemental Shaman - Shelved at 60
want lower taxes? don't want the government looking through your sofa cushions for all the extra pennies it can find, in order to fund their big parties and pay off all their rich friends... well... you'll have to wait 4 years to try and change that.
Maybe, maybe not. Depending how things go in the near future, the political landscape could be very different in two years. And as much as I don't like the tax rate as it is right now, I'd be a little less cross if the taxes actually helped more than they do. I'm grateful for the roads and the defense that the government affords me, but that's just a slice of the budget at any level of government.Originally Posted by 'keyclone',index.php?page=Thread&postID=175660#pos t175660
Basilikos
Icecrown US Alliance
Mixed Group of Unholy DeathKnight, Holy Priest, Elemental/Restoration Shaman, Arcane Mage, Balance/Restoration Druid
Second Mixed group of Protection Paladin, Discipline Priest, Fire Mage, Affliction Warlock, Affliction Warlock
5 Balance Druids - Shelved at 65
Holy Priest and 4 Warlocks - Shelved at 71
Protection Paladin and 4 Shadow Priests - Shelved at 60
5 Elemental Shaman - Shelved at 60
Well, maintaining a national debt isn't necesarily a bad thing, but keeping it under control is certainly important. Hugely deepening it during an expansion didn't help anything, because now that we need to get out of a recession, we're looking at increasing our debt to GDP ratio even higher.
What's really getting me is all these cabinet appointees who haven't paid their taxes. I mean, what the hell? This is supposed to be the party that understands the necesity of taxes and utilizing them for the public good. Makes it real to take them seriously when they keep running in to "ope, so and so didn't pay their taxes either!"
Um, yeah, these last 8 years we've seen a dramatic decrease in the size of government...
Owltoid, Thatblueguy, Thisblueguy, Otherblueguy, Whichblueguy
hmm... spend 8 years defunding defense and intelligence... then the new guy comes in, gets hit within 6 months, turns to see what assests he's got to deal with it and... ??? next thing you know you need to recoup those 8 years of non spending. hmm... that wouldn't be an age old political trick, would it? and now the new administration wants to dismantle 80% of the US nuclear arsenal... all the while defunding intelligence?? didn't we see what happened the last time we did that? (anyone remember 9-11??)
yea, bright moves.
and no, your income taxes do not go to the roads. that would be the gas taxes. fire & police? property taxes. schools? some property taxes, and the fed pushes money into the schools (from income taxes) in order to keep control.
what's really needed... i mean, if you really want change... would be to have a FULL accounting of EVERY DIME brought in... and EVERY DIME being spent. you'd be surprised how many hundred of millions, if not billions, go to parties (drives me crazy). don't think so? did you miss the $180m inaugral party 2 weeks ago?
i thought these were tough times... if so, don't go partying on my dime.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the Dems are going to do much better than the Repubs have (it's truly hard to do worse), I just don't buy the argument that Republican = smaller gov't anymore (and haven't for awhile). In other words, just because a D is in office I don't think it's significantly more likely that the spending will go through the roof because both D and R love to support their special interests, just the money will be spent differently.
I'd vote Republican in a second if Republicans were actual Republicans and not the gov't expansionist bible thumping political mutants they have become... better yet a true Libertarian would be my choice (abolish the Fed, reinstate the gold standard or some function where a private corporation (the Fed) isn't controlling inflation).
Owltoid, Thatblueguy, Thisblueguy, Otherblueguy, Whichblueguy
the thing about the GOP is the 'big tent' mindset. they have been expanding it to try and include everyone, while losing the core beliefs. basically, the expansion has been an expansion to the left. i h ave listened to rush a few times, and he goes crazy when the gop bow down to socialist principles (which we have going on now). i would say that rush is probably a proper example of what the gop should be... and the difference between rush and mccain are night and day.
btw... i'm a constitutional libertarian (there's like 5 of us)
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