Should we raise taxes to pay for Iraq so we don't leave the cost as debt, with interest, to our children? That's it, just a question.
bloc posted on Jan 29, 2007
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silverwhisper said on Jan 29, 2007....
honestly, i'm quite certain that bush is leaving the deficit for a possible democratic successor.
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SeerCatch said on Jan 30, 2007....
Can anyone show me a law that says you have to pay taxes is the real question? -
Muckraker said on Jan 30, 2007....
SeerCatch: the 16th amendment to the Constitution created the income tax -
Muckraker said on Jan 30, 2007....
Silverwhisper is right, but in the beginning we should have had an agreement with Iraq to pick up at least half the tab with their vast oil wealth. Our leaders are so dense, both parties. -
bloc said on Jan 30, 2007....
@muckraker
Yeah, I'm sure the Iraqis would have loved it. "hey Iraqis, we're going to bomb you and destroy your infrastructure then we want you to pay us for the bombs." Imagine how much they would have hated us then!
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lioneljay said on Jan 30, 2007....
The possibility of this administration proposing a tax on anything other than liberal thought is beyond imagination. -
husbandhater said on Jan 30, 2007....
Read My Lips: NO NEW TAXES! Bush and his Klan of wannabes should foot the bill. Its their war they should pay. -
mom said on Jan 30, 2007....
NO MORE TAXES! Damn we are already being taxed beyond belief, many people are being taxed out of their homes. I think that in the beginning of the war it was ok but now I don't. Not only are we spending all this money but the lives of all our military men dying is too much. -
bloc said on Jan 30, 2007....
"many people are being taxed out of their homes."
You know we have a relatively low tax rate in america?
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mom said on Jan 30, 2007....
it sure doesn't seem like it :( -
bloc said on Jan 31, 2007....
We pay about 30% of our income in taxes (counting sales tax and all). It's much much higher in most of europe (closer to 50%), but they get to walk into a hospital and get medical treatment for free.
However, I can't complain. tax dollars paid for my education, and gave me many opportunities to become a productive and wealth generating member of society. In the long run I'm sure i'll put more back into the system than I took out to get an education and such things.
p.s. - $11/unit for college courses in CA community colleges when I went (not that long ago).
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mom said on Jan 31, 2007....
I shouldn't complain about the taxes compared to other places but i don't live in other places, I live here :( -
silverwhisper said on Jan 31, 2007....
costs are relative. what we pay for decent wine here would probably scandalize most europeans, it's practically impossible to fire an employee in europe or so i understand, and there's more government-run things that in the US are handled by private enterprise.
i figure it all evens out.
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theobjectionist said on Feb 05, 2007....
I think we should work out a deal with the Iraqi government where they pay for a portion of the troops that are there to protect it. -
mom said on Feb 05, 2007....
I think that Iraq would laugh at us if we asked for money from them. To me it is kind of like making someone a custom coat and telling them it is free and then when you got done sewing it, tell that person you are going to charge for the labor. I maybe wrong but it is how I see things. -
lambovet said on Feb 16, 2007....
Tax the war on the federal budget not supplemental appropriation. Do the same with veterans affairs "VA" I am a Vietnam vet and my son is in Iraq.
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