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Originally Posted by Guest
Everyone should pay taxes. Period.
Bush's big mistake in my opinion was to eliminate tax requirements on the lower earners. Now, we have those that depend on the gov more and more and the socialists are starting to thrive. Socialism thrives on a population that is dependent on the gov. That's why we are seeing so many liberal/socialist votes. Dependency, just like being dependent on drugs.
The military budget is tiny compared to the entitlement slice of the pie. The Constitution has a mandate for National Defense, but not for entitlements. The only entitlements that we are owed are Social Security and Medicare, that everyone paid for. Anything else can be cut freely.
A flat tax across the board is not a bad thing, but I would rather see a federal sales tax take the place of income tax.
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Everyone does pay taxes. Social security, Medicare, gasoline, and sales taxes. If they rent, indirectly they are paying property taxes.
Bush's biggest tax cuts went to the people in the 39.6% tax bracket.
Take a look the chart of the 2014 budget.
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The two biggest categories are social security, and Medicare. The Republicans largest group of supporters are older Americans. Socialism seems to be working fine for us. It takes gall to complain about everybody else. We are the biggest takers. Sure we paid into the program for 30-40 years, but that money wasn't put aside for us. It was paid to people that were collecting at the time. If they put the plug on social security, which they won't do, we would be out of luck. We are not entitled to social security.
Defense spending is greater than discretionary spending. Constitution mandates national defense, but not at the cost of everything else.