Reply #19: Yeah, that's how the bills got paid ten years ago.

[TheKentuckian]

Everyone had much more trouble paying bills then.

In any event, saying you don't want to hear something doesn't mean it isn't true.

You know this is the poorest use of these resources that is possible, including simply doing nothing with them at all (aka not borrowing the funds) in light of the state of the infrastructure, the foreclosure crisis, dwindling oil, millions and millions with no means at all (certainly not paying taxes and fueling the economy), and even the debt.

If you look at this picture and try to tell me that for people outside of the bottom bracket getting 1-3% tax relief is the best use of the resources.

You really believe that we are best served as a nation to. Borrow trillions of dollars so that somebody has an extra twenty a paycheck (if that)???

Now, if you're talking the bottom bracket then I can understand. You're talking people with nothing and the hardest hit of the last decade or three. Those that do pay can't really afford a 50% increase so to keep it neutral the top half percent or so should pick it up (probably small potatoes, anyway) but the rest of us should take our tax cut and invest it into our country so that we have some chance at broad prosperity.

You really need your 2% more than for the sewage not to seep into the fresh water?

You'd rather die in a bridge collapse than give up $12 or some such a week?

There is no profit in a majority that won't make sensible decisions and level with the people.

Seriously, what is the gain of this kind of hand to mouth thinking? What kind of country will we leave behind continuing as we have.