Is it a logical question "Do you want to pay higher/lower taxes?"?

Question

Paying taxes is only ones side of the budget, what about spending? If you do not change spending along with taxation it is fiscally unsound.

Answer 1

lower

Answer 2

excellent point/question

think about that when voting for pres...Obama wants to add 1 TRILLION dollars of new spending to the budget

Answer 3

President Reagan cut taxes and cut spending.  That is the recipe for success.  The first quarter of this year or the last quarter of last year I can't remember, our revenue was greater than ever nearly 1trillion.  This in a large part due to lower capital gains taxes and lower unemployment.  However, our spending was the most in history, greater 1.2+ trillion. That's a recipe for disaster

Answer 4

If the consumer has more money in his pocket to save and spend, the economy makes out in the long run.

If the Government takes all  your spending power away from you, business's fail, and so goes the economy.

Simple logic

Answer 5

I've said it before and I will say it again.  I can spend my money better than the government can.

Answer 6

This is your answer....Republicans cut taxes, while they borrow more money to spend more money. They just hit the printing press buttom and there you go. Imagine taking money from your bank account that you don't have and depositing a bunch of I.O.U's.

Democrats tax more to spend more money.

Either way is a bad way of doing things. I don't understand how you can have all these high profile, well educated people running the govenment, but can not balance a budget. This is essential in any business.

Answer 7

No doubt about it--tax and spend is better than borrow and spend.

But actually the only president since 1980 who actually did lower spending, make government smaller, and lower taxes for the middle class was a DEMOCRAT!

Bush couldn't wait to undo the good work Clinton had done.  Almost the day he came into office he announced he was giving away the prospective 'surplus' in a tax break to rich people.

Today Bush's deficits are the highest in history NOT COUNTING the cost of the Iraq War!

How the Republicans can still pretend to be the party of fiscal responsibility is beyond me.  Your crummy $600 tax break will be more than eaten up by increases in the cost of gas, and we haven't even seen the inflation in everything else that will be caused by gas costs.