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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (62070)4/2/2009 2:52:45 PM
From: TimF1 Recommendation   of 224763
 
As a country, tax cuts aren't spending, so they aren't "affordable" or "not affordable". Reducing taxes doesn't reduce income (in fact it tends to increase total income), it just keeps some of the income from going to the government.

For the government (which is not the country as a whole, only part of it), they can be unaffordable, but if either taxes are already very low, or your in some near total war (like WWII) or if the government lacks restraint on spending (as it did under Bush, and now does to an even greater extent with Obama as president)

What's really unaffordable is all this additional spending.
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