Raise America’s Taxes

[elephantium]

Originally Posted by Terrax

I'm in the minority, but no pain no gain. If the US would actually stick to a plan and drive down debt, as a citizen, I would gladly pay more taxes. I myself HATE being in debt & am working my ass off to get out.

But our budget is a typical situation. I'm way over simplifying it, but pay off one debt, & another pops up. Get the mortgage paid off & then the the family wants a new car. Most people can't save money, excess $$$ must be spent. You've got to make sacrifices to dig yourself out a hole that you've made for yourself. Our government should be the same way.

Agreed -- we'll need to pay more in taxes fund the government services we expect, or we'll have to learn to do without a lot of those services. Either way, it's a sacrifice.

OTOH, I'm not too keen on the idea of making deep sacrifices myself in order to pay an extra million to the multi-billionaires in this country.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Or maybe a simpler way. Put all the massive unemployed citizens back to work that will pay taxes and, help take the burden off the already working taxpayers.

Just a thought.

Sort of what FDR did with the many work programs.

Unfortunately with the technology we have today, the safety regulations, not to mention the unions, there is very little untrained unemployed labor could do

We need to find some program that will serve society that we can implement in a deliberately labor inefficient way to put people to work. I just can't think of one that will get past the regulators and the unions.

Maybe we need to work through the unions. Hey, the US government worked through the Mafia during WWII, maybe they can work through the unions?

Wish I had the answer.