Re: Positive "Change" version 2.0
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:20 pm
my point about Texas is this: despite piss-poor levels of social spending, and poor academic spending, Texas
has a huge deficit. Taxes seem to be pretty low, but there is a minimum level of government everyone still expects.....just doesn't look like Texans think they ought to pay for them.
As for the $14 trillion, which of you slow wits thinks I'm going to pay a smaller share of it than you?
Puhleaze.
Oh, and Cuda......nifty chart work, indeed! Kudos! Still, when you factor in stuff than no Congressional action impacted, like debt service, spending on Social Security, Medicare etc, that Pelosi et al didn't increase, no real uptick in the rate of growth is seen. The last things that really impacted the deficit was the stimulus package, which probably kept revenues from plummetting, so that was sort of necessary. Much of it was repaid or came back in the form of taxation, anyway. The last two items that altered the overall trajectory of growth were the addition of unfunded wars and the last major Medicare revision, both on the GOP congress' watch. Make what you will of that, but those are the facts.
has a huge deficit. Taxes seem to be pretty low, but there is a minimum level of government everyone still expects.....just doesn't look like Texans think they ought to pay for them.
As for the $14 trillion, which of you slow wits thinks I'm going to pay a smaller share of it than you?
Puhleaze.
Oh, and Cuda......nifty chart work, indeed! Kudos! Still, when you factor in stuff than no Congressional action impacted, like debt service, spending on Social Security, Medicare etc, that Pelosi et al didn't increase, no real uptick in the rate of growth is seen. The last things that really impacted the deficit was the stimulus package, which probably kept revenues from plummetting, so that was sort of necessary. Much of it was repaid or came back in the form of taxation, anyway. The last two items that altered the overall trajectory of growth were the addition of unfunded wars and the last major Medicare revision, both on the GOP congress' watch. Make what you will of that, but those are the facts.
