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To: TimF who wrote (487741)	6/12/2009 7:17:07 PM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572830

But simple or not, raising taxes would be a bad idea. We need to get the government moving in the other direction, away from higher taxes and higher spending. The type of taxes that would be needed to erase deficits that large would be seriously harmful, esp. if they where not simple, but instead came with new complexities and additional intervention as they probably would. That is where we totally disagree. We have some of the lowest federal taxes in modern times, and we are starving the government and threatening our world dominance. Previous generations have anti-ed up much higher taxes and built the infrastructure, with close to balanced budgets, that we enjoy and are now neglecting. Your folks wouldn't have built the Interstate system... which is a source of our wealth. You wouldn't have regulated drugs... a source of our wealth. Everything you touch, everyday, is regulated by our government, the best in the world. It's the reason we have been successful; the world's greatest government. You starve it, or make it operate on a credit card, and you starve the country. Which seems to be happening.