A simple tax question for all the conservatives in the room?
admin | Apr 18, 2010 | Comments 20
The current reports state that Social Security and Medicare will be bankrupt in our lifetime. The American shape insurance system is in such disrepair that end of life shape care is the NUMBER ONE cause of personal bankruptcy in America (talk about a death tariff!)…AND…there are over 40 million Americans without shape insurance, including nearly 20 million who can pay, but are refused coverage by the insurance companies (like myself). We need to invest in our infrastructure, (bridges are falling down), and we need to maintain a STRONG military presence on a worldwide scale.
MY QUESTION:
HOW DO CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS EXPECT TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS WITHOUT TAXES?
Heaven J: Clarify how these are lies
Libstick: I never said anything about Fed or State…you assume to much
Now answer the question or declare defeat
kja63: nice try, but you really promote tariff increases, especially focusing on culture, are you a closet liberal?
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They don’t. They have insurance and that’s all they care about.
Shoot the exhausted/dying without shape insurance.
Look! no one is suffering!
Liberal lies, don’t believe them.!~!
It is not the Federal Governments job to insure that you have insurance, a retirement or even excellent roads to drive on, that is the State’s Governments job. We agree we need a tariff to pay for the Military, because that is the Federal Government’s job, along with the three branches of Government, Coining Money, and conducting Foreign Policy.
We have to have SOME taxes, and the States should be the ones doing the taxing for most of those items you programmed, not the Federal Government. That TAX should be in the form of consumption, it.. Sales tariff… Not INCOME…
This is the upshot of the republican scare tactic of “they’re going to raise your taxes”. SO instead, they boost spending and cut taxes – which is a set up for bankruptcy – and it’s happening.
Limit & reduce government. Significantly reduce government entitlement programs. Significantly reduce government hand-outs.
Support business and keep jobs in the local communities. Give businesses programs to aid reduce costs of insurance so that their employees can have excellent benefits. No more hand-outs — work if you want to live!
Balance the budget. Expenses cannot exceed Income. Valuable Economics 101. You hold the line on taxes and steadily reduce taxes each year until you reach the “break even point” with taxes and spending. You significantly reduce spending so that your expenses never exceed your current income (taxes).
Reduce the deficit. Stop spending money we do not have. Stop devaluing the dollar.
Make taxes honest for all. For example: Property owners should not support the school system. Everyone contributes to school taxes, especially those sending children to school regardless of whether they own a household or rent! If you have children in school, you pay more school taxes than those of us who don’t (but we still contribute).
Continue with our existing programs to ensure shape care at emancipated clinics and hospitals if you cannot afford to pay (with proof, of course). We already have this today for anyone who is poor, so there is no need for anything else.
Also, control frivolous lawsuits by people looking for simple bucks. Lawsuits have their house, particularly for yucky neglect or medical malpractice. But there should be a law that says if the plaintiff loses their case then they must pay for ALL court costs and ALL of the defendant’s cost. That will place an end to these nuisance suits like “my coffee was too hot!”
I could go on & on, but you make the gist of it.
I submit to you the Bush government is being very clever. They have massively overspent everywhere; the military behave like they don’t have a budget and your other points are on the nail. The thing is – Bush is out of office in a few months; the Republicans obviously don’t reckon McCain can beat the Democrats – so the new Democratic president will be stuck with the hurt, have to repair it and probably will be very unpopular because of the measures that will have to be taken. I wonder when the 700,000,000 loans that have been taken from China are due?
Your question is too vague. Some taxes are necessary, while others are not. The overall approach to balance the budget and fund a properly sized government would take years to implement.
The whole thought of taxing people less allows them to have more of their own money to spend. When people spend more of their own money…. the revenue the government intakes increases substantially in turn because they buy things… that are in turn… taxed by the government…. or save more…. which is also taxed by the government.
It is a detail that when taxes reduce….. the federal, state, and local governments subsidy in the form of record revenues.
The Reagan years were excellent examples of this.
And the problems of social security and medicare were brought upon us by irresponsible spending from our Congress throughout the years.
That is a whole OTHER subject we need to solve.
you know how many times in my life i have heard that , and it keeps changing which generation it will happen in, and it seems to always come towards the election time
You know what I want to see.
For one year, the wealthy of the US go all of their assets into vehicles that earn nearly no interest or even better non-interest bearing accounts.
Their income would fall to zero and they would live off the principle. For that one year, the bulk of money that the government gets would go to next to nothing. Then the US would learn that depending on the wealthy to pay the taxes is a very terrible thought.
Look at Europe where your solution of higher taxes has been tried and found wanting.
What is needed is interstate competition in shape insurance – a touch that is currently banned by the States and the McCarran Act. Doctors have turned shape insurance into terrible debt insurance and many medical minorities and set out to make expensive reimbursement for their diseases that makes the insurance too dear for many ordinary people to afford.
Privatization of pensions will work out preeminent for everyone. It has worked well in Australia and it was introduced by a left of center government.
Way too simple. No one is saying without taxes, but rather limited government. Do away with social programs like SS and Medicare. The money you save from having to pay those you can place into trust accounts, IRA’s and make more than you would hear late in life. Remove government involvement in Shape care, and let the market drive itself down to affordable insurance for everyone. We already pay taxes for infrastructure (fuel tariff). What small taxes we do pay should be for military and protection.
Honest tariff would solve all problems google it.
Why is it a given that someone else has to be responsible for me? It is not your responsibility to make sure that I have shape care or money in my pocket or food on my table….. It is MY responsibility to see to it that myself and my wife and my children are clothed, fed, educated, insured, etc… I don’t expect anyone else to do it for me and I do not expect to have to do it for any one else. If I choose to aid someone, then fine but do not make me support people whom I don’ t choose to support. Taxes for military, roads, etc. YES! But if the government would stop handing out money and food to everyone and stop spending money on BS then there would be an enormous windfall of revenue in the state and federal governments.
place on’t know, don’t care. I just want it done, because the simple detail is that taxes are too high already and it seems that I never be eligible for any of the special programs that my taxes go towards. I don’t agree with most of them anyway, but if I’m paying for them I want a cut.
For starters, no pay increases for Congress during any years in which the inhabitant debt or budget deficit increases. Then maybe they’ll find a way to make it happen. I’m tired of them voting themselves pay increases for doing a failed job.
Eliminate welfare for able bodied bone idle people. They suck the system dry, they cannot afford healthcare, they suck medicare dry with their multiple dependants (which I AGREE children deserve healthcare, but if the breeders were employed and covered, it wouldn’t dry up medicaid) and eliminate ALL state benefits for illegals and visiting immigrants..ONLY citizens should be able to make benefits…if a visiting foreigner gets ill, the hospitals cannot refuse to treat them, just as they cannot refuse to treat illegals.
Which of your income taxes go to pay for those things you mention? Can you caution me?
Social Security is bankrupt because the Federal Government keeps stealing from that reservoir to fund your social programs not because we don’t pay enough into it. Your judgment is completely flawed. That’s like saying my tires keep going flat, must be a touch incorrect with my engine. The logical leap is that of a two-year ancient.
Why do you imagine that if you are denied medical coverage even even if you have the skill to pay that has anything to do with a socialized medical system or would be fixed by it. Who pays for it does not correlate to who receives the subsidy. Regulate insurance providers it’s simple it should be done. Limit malpractice suits and their subsequent monetary hurts. But don’t continue to breed giddiness, by gifting our inferiors with the rewards of a productive life.
For one- your figures are incorrect. Shape care is not the number one cause of personal bankruptcy. That is a ludicrous statement. Two- there is no 40 million figure for Americans without healthcare- it is more like 28 million and it includes people who do not want it regardless of the price. Believe it or not many people who are young or not sickly ( or some who even are sickly) like to just pay the doctor themselves when they go to seek aid. Shape insurance is not a necessity as everyone is led to believe. In detail, if you are spending $200. a month for healthcare insurance and you see the doctor four times a year you are getting ripped off BIG TIME! It costs at the most $100. for a general office visit but you would have paid $2400. in shape insurance costs per year! Healthcare should not be an item which is paid for by the government- it should be a personal choice.
Your question is based on a fake assumption.
No one has ever said that things will be solved without taxes.
What we have said is that taxes is not the issue, it is revenue. How can we maximize revenue to the government with our current system.
It has been shown time and time again that raising taxes slows the economy, and the government really has fewer tariff dollars to spend than they would have if they had left things alone.
It also has been shown that tariff reductions stimulate the economy and boost revenue to the government.
These are facts and are easily demonstrable in many places.
So tariff decreases combined with cut-rate spending is the answer.
Libsticker has answered your question. The consumption (or Honest) tariff would eliminate all taxes on your income, no matter where the income is taking house. You would not pay a sales tariff on essential items, but all other buys would be taxed. That way you, not the IRS, determine how much tariff you’re going to pay. You would bring your entire paycheck home. No more withholding, no more IRS, no more tariff income. More money would wind up in the treasury and that’s what would fund social security and healthcare help. The government cannot operate without taxes and nobody expects it to. Just to clarify one point, no one has a “aptly” to healthcare. It is a commodity, just like your household, your TV, your computer and your car. Government is not responsible for buying you a household,TV, car, or doctor.