Is your Trickled down income OK?

"If not, then vote to change that. You have the power to elect democrats into congress. They can increase the revenue in the US Treasury, and pay the bills, as opposed to borrow the necessary revenue to run the country from the Chinese, and the Middle East countries."

But when taxes are increased, then revenue has a slight increase then goes down lower than previous levels before the tax increase. People hold onto their money instead of investing in businesses that employ people because they are punished more for being productive.

Or, we can have the government just take over those business's and force them to produce and hire people like Castro, 'lil Kim, and Chavez do.

That never happened under Bill Clinton, and the revenue was good enough to pay down the national debt.

The scare tactic doesn't hold any water at all anymore.

Those against greed and for a cleaner world will prevail.

Most Americans must be feeling the heat in this era of "VooDoo Economics". Some of us consider that another way of saying "the result of the doctrine of profitable debt".

You mentioned going to movies -- I've cut out all outside entertainment and a lot of other things. This economy is going to take decades to recover from ... it recovery is truly possible.

Yeah, but they seem to want to increase that revenue to pay those bills by raising my taxes, so even less to trickle down into my pocket. All the while, there appears to be no problem spending even more money. It would be nice if I could just give myself a raise whenever I wanted to cover my increased spending!
They're all the same at the core...

C'mon, we gotta keep those billionaires happy or they'll get just mad and stop spilling those crumbs we're sometimes lucky enough to catch...

The congress needs to reduce the spending also, however, that is an other issue all together, however, it also is tied to the greed

By the way the republicans were total abject failures at reducing the financial programs in the government. They only increased that problem, therefore, that is another reason to vote for the more fiscally responsible democrats, as opposed to the spendthrift republicans

"That never happened under Bill Clinton, and the revenue was good enough to pay down the national debt."

You mean the "dot com" bubble? Then we paid for it later.

The market turned down almost to the day that Bush was appointed to be the president, almost solely because of his stand on cutting the Income taxes.

The fear was in the market and the revenue was gone and that alone started the downtern, and that is why the recession.

You can't tax your way into prosperity.

Very true Winston.

But the revenue from a more correct taxing method could be enough to keep the roads and bridges from failing apart, as well as to fund the military.

Also a more correct taxing method should be beneficial to business and not hinder their ability to compete in the world market place.

"more correct taxing" ?? Flat tax with few exemptions? National sales tax?

It's the spending. We want everyone to become dependant on a government program whether it's social security, medicaid, medicare, drug prescriptions, health care, military base or contractor in their district.

Everyone wants piece of the action but wants someone else to pay for it or to pay a little and have someone else pay a lot. We want to be compassionate with some one else's money.

Then, whenever you pull a piglet off the sow they start to squeal.

That all depends upon who you mean by 'we'.

I certainly don't agree with what you are suggesting at all.

For example in the health care issue, I have said over and over again and again that everyone that needs or wants to, should buy a health care plan from a provider or insurance company or organization, and the state governments help those that can't afford to buy any health care plan.

In the Social Security arena I agree totally that people need to invest in a Roth IRA or a 401K type of retirement and to plan for their own retirement. I also agree with the government moving the Social Security age requirement on out further.

I also agree with the government contracting out more services such as school food programs, welfare, criminal housing and other things of that nature.

I agree completely with consolidating the military bases and the total military efforts. There are many over-lapping functions and features in the military where consolidation would be a great benefit.

There are so many areas that cost cutting in the government would be a benefit that I can't even come close to suggesting where to start. However, the republicans were total failures in the congress from 2001 through 2007. Therefore, I don't think it would be a good idea to see them again in power.

NO its dried up lol. no my income is fixed while price keep rising