"Those don't match well, do they?"
LA Times shows Kentucky listed as a 'swing state'... they are CRAZY.
[Just considering the half that is left after you take out all the 'defense' stuff... Bush is STILL spending like a drunken sailor, at a rate of increase GREATER then Clinton's.]
"Oh, BTW, a large part of the projected deficits come from increasing federal health coverage- -something liberals are gung ho for and Bush was trying to cut them off at the pass. Not that he should have, but seniors vote."
Yeah, so what? Washington is full of deficit spenders. (Just goes to show that Bush is no fiscal conservative. His discresionary spending increases --- after all defense costs are taken out --- are 50% higher then Clinton's.)
Anyway, no one disputes that the tax code changes account for the largest chunk of the projected increases in the deficits... even when factoring in 'dynamic scoring'.
Cutting rates is GOOD, but failing to reduce spending and forgone revenues (by eliminating tax loopholes, subsidies, 'special tax preference items', etc.) MORE then destroys the budgetary benefits --- as both CBO & OMB analysis show. (Also the same thing is predicted by the private econometrics firm the WH hired to use 'dynamic scoring' in the run-up to Bush's state-of-the-union speech. They CAN'T claim they weren't warned!)
[Are you a 'conservative' or a 'liberal' if you stand up for the American Constitution?]
"A company manufactures drugs and sells them to companies in its state ONLY. Should it be subject to FDA regulation? It itself engages ONLY in intra-state commerce."
If it's not involved in inter-state commerce then the Feds have no authority under the inner-state commerce clause of the Constitution.
This is exactly the same un-constitutional massive expansion of federal power that they are trying in two other areas: medical marijuana in states where it is legal (but which is not 'sold' --- thus no 'commerce' --- and which never crosses a state line... and with Oregon's assisted suicide law --- where the feds are trying to regulate what physicians can and cannot do....)
If they have legal authority in ALL of these areas, then they have controlling authority in everything... and the States might as well disband their governments, because the feds can claim authority over all economic and non-economic actions.
[Now try to get Cy to take this test.]
"AFTER you teach him to read and write. :-) He uses a different Constitution than I. His is disposable at will."
--- Funny. Also, seemingly supported by the evidence. |
