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In reply to the discussion: Rep. Cole (R-OK): "We now have a great deal more leverage against the White House." [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The time to discuss cutting this program or that is when the budget is argued, not when the debt ceiling has to be raised.
The 14th Amendment was written at a time when people still remembered how indebted we were after the American Revolution. We paid some of our soldiers with land grants as I recall because we didn't have the money to pay them. If I am wrong about this, I hope some historian will correct me.
Debts have to be paid. Promises have to be kept.
And you take the tax money from those who can afford to pay taxes.
"Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785. ME 19:18, Papers 8:682
http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/ThomasJefferson/jeff1330.htm