more tax revenue

No, thinking spending is the problem is retarded. You need spending in a modern economy you jackass. Just ask every successful first world country.
 
Again, the Dems (typically) will agree that we need to cut spending where it makes sense to cut it.

EVERY major analysis of our current economy says that we NEED to find a way to increase revenue AND create budget cuts. The MAJORITY of Americans feel this way as well (at least according to the polls).

The tired tea-party point of revenue increases won't HELP solve the problem is just that, tired.
 
"Where it makes sense"

You HONESTLY think that if they somehow figured out a tax rate to balance the budget tomorrow, that they wouldn't increase spending again?

Do you HONESTLY think that? Please, tell me that you are that naive.
 
True, but I know personally many families who do work (both adults) 40 hours a week @ minimum wage. Total income weekly is $580 corabined for the pair. Now $580/week is ~ $30,000 / year. Figure that they are allowed $11,600 in write down due to standard deduction and their tax burden is now ~18,400. Add in a child and you deduct another $1000 and then the EIC (which I'm not a fan of) and their burden is nearly zero. However, they still paid FICA on the $30,000. Meaning that they have in fact paid in $435 for their Medicare portion of FICA and $1860 for their Social Security portion...in other worRAB 6.2% of your check goes to SS

If you are making $106,800 (current cap):
Your Medicare portion of FICA will be $1,548.60
Your Social Security portion of FICA will be $6,621.60... again 6.2%

@ $250,000:
Your Medicare portion of FICA will be $3,625.00
Your Social Security portion of FICA will be $6,621.60 ... now you are paying about 2.65%

What I'm getting at is Social Security is a regressive tax. How? Because the return of "investment" (horrible term, I know) is that the poor will receive the least benefit and pay the highest percent vs those at the top of the wage earnings who (by their own admission) don't need it when they retire.

Now, the argument I'm going to hear is "well, why don't these people find better jobs....." which is a good argument, however, if they do, then who is going to do the jobs that THEY are currently doing?

You can't eliminate the working poor in this country, they are needed just as much as the rich to do the jobs that the rest of us don't want to do....the shit jobs with shit pay and shit benefits. In all honesty, these people are just as vital to our economy as everyone else.
 
No. I know better than that. I know that BOTH parties will find ways to spend that money. That is the biggest problem.

As for the "where it makes sense" part: If we should make sweeping cuts sense no spending makes sense, I say we completely eliminate the military and all subsidies for everything across the board. I also propose that we completely eliminate all SS and Medicare payments from this day forward. Fuck the retired people who have paid into both systems for as long as they've been alive. While we're at it, lets stop all funding of the federal highway system, NASA, and every other program that costs us money.

Yes, I was being absurd above, but only to prove that programs can not just be eliminated and that common sense approaches need to be taken to find the best ways to cut and (in some cases) eliminate programs altogether.
 
While many of you probably view me as a liberal, I vote republican/libertarian 90% of the time. I'm active in my local republican party, I participate in local political debate and I challenge my own party to look beyond their ideology to see that it isn't always as black and white as it may appear.
 
The tax code should be simplified such that taxes are fair and balanced, eliminating many of the tax breaks across the board....same with corporate tax breaks.

This can be done in a fair manner that generates revenue....but you won't see it happen.
 
oops...misread what you wrote the first time...thought you meant those that do pro-bono work now.

This is how my mind read it the first time around:
 
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