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Originally Posted by rubicon
As the pundits like to remind us "the devil is in the details". To suggest that its simply arithmetic is to take "the political bait."
Raising taxes whether federal or state has repeatedly demonstrated that the rich simply get more creative with tax loops or simply move, the poorer cry poverty and the middle class get stuck.
The key to prosperity is "productivity" With so many people collecting freebie from the government without paying any taxes is a tremdous drain on our budget (Of course I exclude social security medicare, etc where people in good faith paid into the system). Add to that fraud and bid rigging of government contracts and those issues alone sink any budget. but there is no incentive to fight fraud because gets votes ( so many of thses dubious receipents have been recorded calling it Obama money) but it easily could be Bush money,, etc because the government refuses to gert serious about fighting fraud. In the insurance industry I have seen fraud programs that are very workable and result in effective returns. However the insurance companies have incentives such as demands made by the departmens of insurance and of course their profit line. government doesn't have a profit line. It has taxpayers. so a program goes into effect without any serious discussion of fraud.
Finally we have the issues of pork and boondoggles neither of which politicians want to lose.
Essentially without any present changes in current tax policy effective changes to the above would result in substantial savings and a postive bottom line. Politicians are lazy and resistent to anything that complicates their view of thw world. IMHO taxes can and should be reduced forcing politicians to become prudent spenders of tax payers funds
I opine you decide
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How can someone who is so outraged about fraud in government vote for Gov Rick Scott, who was CEO of the company that commited the largest medicare fraud in US history? And where is the outrage toward Mitt Romney, who will not release his tax returns for the past ten years as all other candidates have done? People with nothing to hide usually don't try to hide things. How does a Romney/Scott ticket sound?