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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (568212)	4/23/2004 2:32:27 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Cutting the military entirely will save you 385B. But if you cut HHS, you'll save 550B. And you'll get to continue speaking English.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (568212)	4/23/2004 5:56:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

no I'm not, I just want a balanced budget. Of course you want to balance the budget by forcing corps to pay taxes that are already being paid by people. Essentially, you want a tax increase. Corporations are not some new source of revenue that you can just tap because of your tendency to overspend. You tax them, the money will still come out of your pocket. We are down 650 billion thanks to the Bush fiscal team. We either 1) cut the military in its ENTIRETY, or 2) raise my taxes or 3) raise corp taxes. Oh dear. This is just insane. You don't need to totally eliminate the military. Cutting the Dept. of Education significantly would be more than enough, especially when combined with cuts in other programs and the complete elimination of some. If you have another solution let me know what it is. See above. Part of the problem is that US corps are selling here without paying taxes here or hiring here. Okay, then raise their taxes and increase your own cost of living. Other western countries would never allow this. Other western countries are in more than a pickle. Look at France, an utter mess. But if people want this laissez faire corporate rule I guess its ok with me as long as we dump the military completely because thats the only way we can pay our bills. Insanity, pure California insanity. I know you have no solution to this reckless republican spending so you will probably try to change the subject or bring up the protectionist boogeyman or some other irrelevant issue. Protectionism is quite relevant when you wish to employ it to "pay our bills." If you take money from one place, it comes from that place, Liz. It doesn't just show up out of nowhere.