The rich will pay more taxes, Boehner says

[Statler Waldorf]

Would you like some salsa for that chip on your shoulder? Or you can just keep crying about how being an ******* towards everyone but white males wasn't a good strategy to win the Presidency. I guess it's really your choice...

I’d rather speak the truth and lose elections than have to lie and buy people’s votes with other people’s money. You can’t win on the issues and you know it.

It would change a lot of people's voting tendencies if they were required to pay the higher rate they were trying to push on others.

Imagine how different our government might look if it were a "a la carte" in which each voter only paid for the programs he supported. How many would suddenly become advocates of smaller government?

Exactly, if a person didn’t contribute to the pie how is it fair they get to determine how it is sliced?

I wish we could just check off which programs we wanted our tax dollars to go to on our tax sheets. If I want all of my money to go to defense it should all go to defense, that way politicians would have to lobby for our money and how they want to spend it, if a program wasn’t properly funded then it is obvious the people don’t value it enough to fund it and it must be eliminated.

[TheWalrus]

I’d rather speak the truth and lose elections than have to lie and buy people’s votes with other people’s money. You can’t win on the issues and you know it.

Is that what you think Romney was doing?
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Exactly, if a person didn’t contribute to the pie how is it fair they get to determine how it is sliced?

How about a system where only those who serve in the military get to vote, like Starship Troopers?

I wish we could just check off which programs we wanted our tax dollars to go to on our tax sheets. If I want all of my money to go to defense it should all go to defense, that way politicians would have to lobby for our money and how they want to spend it, if a program wasn’t properly funded then it is obvious the people don’t value it enough to fund it and it must be eliminated.

So the problem in one thread is that people vote freebies for themselves and now you want a thousand page budget on the ballot? Yeesh.

[tylerdolphin]

Yeah, someone should totally have the option to contribute all their tax dollar to defense and nothing to the roads they drive on, police officers, teachers, parks, or anything else. I cant see the problem there TBH.

[Dolphins9954]

OK we raise taxes....great. So what happens when Obama calls for more spending in the next 4 years?? Because anyone who thinks he's not planning on more spending is insane. There will be more for sure. Especially on the war front and government spending/power gimmicks to come. Government never stops expanding. It's like the Blob. Not using new tax revenue to balance the budget and pay off debt would be totally irresponsible. Just as bad as tax cuts and increasing spending.

[MarshallFin1]

The rich defending the rich in here? lol