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

To: Scumbria who wrote (255540)	5/16/2002 10:58:14 AM
From: Bill Grant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>Eliminate the debt, and you can cut taxes by 25% immediately.<< I believe you have this backwards. You can't eliminate debt(deficit) by cutting spending. That has been proven over time. Primarily Democrats, but also a number of Republicans, will vote on pet projects(pork) regardless of whether such projects are financially sound. Not only that, but once a government program is instituted -- e.g., the Federal Department of Education -- it is virtually impossible to do away with. My view is that the Federal government should have virtually no role in education, which should be left to states and localities. The only way to eliminate deficits is to outgrow them, and the most efficient way to increase growth is to cut taxes and reduce the "red tape" connected with government oversight. That, by the way, does not mean that government oversight is always a bad thing, just that intrusive and inefficient oversight is counterproductive.

To: Scumbria who wrote (255540)	5/16/2002 11:10:51 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Here, here! Whatever happened to 'fiscally sound' conservatism? Today it's all about winning the next election (example: new farm subsidies), and never about the long-term benefit of the Nation. Truth is that both parties over-spend on their pet projects, and engage in fraudulent accounting. Their proposed budgets differ in the details, and on the margin, but in the aggregate are nearly identical in their over-spending. For once I'd like to see a President who actually used his veto power to constrain deficit spending... and took his case directly to the people.