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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (13219)	11/5/1998 5:26:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 67261

Doing nothing is actually what I want Congress to do. When you realize that 90% of passed legislation contains new spending measures, suddenly you realize how valuable a do-nothing Congress is.

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (13219)	11/5/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

As for the do-something, do-anything Democrats, here we go again. This is the third rescue of Social Security and Medicare in the last 20 years. They've raised taxes now to almost 16% and their last proposal was to raise it to 22%. You can bet they'll claim Social Security will need another "rescue" not long from the supposed rescue. As for Medicare and Medicaid, their supposed rescues of this program have caused private health care costs to skyrocket due to the cost shifting and the fraud. As for education, they also claim to create a crazy quilt of programs, such as Headstart, 100,000 teachers, and other programs that pretend to fix education. The problem is that any students helped by these peripheral programs are undone by the lousy public school system. The Democrats don't know how to fix the public school system. The government is the only place where they give more money to people who screw up. It doesn't pay to be effective or efficient. If they want to start fixing this government, they need to start with a "Truth in Government Taxation Bill" that requires explicit disclosure on W2's and other bills how much tax is payed by the individual and stop the fiction that the employer pays the tax.