Reply #20: Because there is no free lunch...

[kentuck]

If your property taxes go up and your health care costs go up and college tuition goes up, you eventually come to the realization that you are paying more at one level at the same time you got a taxcut at another level. And every dime is borrowed. You and I and your children in the future will pay not only what George W Bush has borrowed to give you a taxcut today, but we will have to pay interest on it also, just like a credit card....just like a credit card. It is not free money. If we want a society with certain amenities, like good roads, good schools, clean water, etc, then we have to pay for it. If we decide that we are paying too much in taxes, then we have to cut services somewhere or we have to borrow the money to pay for it. And borrowed money is a permanent tax. And it is a tax which you get nothing for. What would you think is the tax bill on the present national debt?