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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (149246)	5/28/2001 5:48:10 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

E, when an economist asserts "they simply waved their hands and made all the revenue that will actually be lost in the last year of the 10-year period — hundreds of billions of dollars — disappear from the accounting." That is an opinion. Who do you think "is waving their hand", is it one member of congress, Bush himself, a certain body of people, or do the numbers on paper wave up at the liberal economist? I haven't read every detail of the budget numbers. And I suspect neither have you. If you choose to believe this (openly self-professed) liberal N.Y. Times economist, have at it. My gut instinct tells me "figures don't lie, but liars figure". And anyone can take apart an 11 year multi-trillion dollar budget if they choose to. Budgets of this nature are projections, not written in stone like some home based business spread sheet. And to believe otherwise is folly. The American people are overtaxed! And they deserve to have the government work more efficiently and take less of their hard earned dollars. If the numbers don't add up in this liberal economic model, then cut government spending. No eleven year budget has ever gone through the painstaking skeptical analysis that this budget has gone through. If they had, and we actually followed the plan 5 years later, we wouldn't be taxing hard working Americans at such a high rate today. The only way to ensure we don't continue sucking the life energy out of hard-working productive people in our country, is to cut off the supply of funding to the government coffers. The more they have to spend, the more they will spend, the more they spend, the more they will waste. That's what government bureaucracies do. They feed off themselves and NEVER seem to have enough money. How much is enough! How high of a tax rate do you think we need in order to appease these liberal economists? How high of a tax rate are you willing to vote for? Should we go back to the 73% marginal rate we had before Reagan slashed them? Democrats who are unwilling to answer that question and continuously deride any decrease in taxes are being dishonest with themselves and the American people. If Dashle and company don't want to cut taxes, then what do they want to cut? Is there any government funded project they would like to see reduced? Of course not, we are just supposed to continue pouring trillions of dollars into an overstimulated bureaucracy which is incredibly wasteful forever. I say let's end this nonsense and force the government to balance the federal budget every year. Are Democrats now for a Constitutional balanced budget resolution? Because, they've been fighting the adoption of one for years. Are you for one? Is that liberal economist for one? I doubt it...