No matter what you or anyone says, higher debt is a tax. I am fine with paying higher taxes but taxing more and spending more is ridiculous.[/quote]
Absolutely; I’ve never said otherwise. But we need to do both: raise taxes and cut spending. A good start would be to slash military spending and all of our spy agency expenses in half. We need to eliminate all domestic spying, especially where it concerns American citizens, IMHO. And we need to GTFO of other countries when we have no freaking right to be there killing innocent citizens and “insurgents” who are trying to protect their country from occupying invaders.
Then, we can means test for Social Security recipients and/or eliminate the ceiling on income subject to payroll taxes.
After that, enact a national healthcare system run 100% by the government with the option to upgrade via private market insurance. We already cover the most expensive patients — the elderly, indigent, and children — so we might as well take over the “profitable” patients which would make our average cost per capita decrease tremendously. That way, people would also be free to move from job to job, instead of being trapped with one employer because they fear losing their health insurance.
I’m sick and tired of socializing the losses and privatizing the profits…then having those who benefit most from this system complain that their taxes are too high. Enough, already.
