I did not vote Democrat. But I am asking whether their supporters feel they would not be "following through" on their promises if they did not do these things - address the deficit and stop the war.
What say you? Thanks.
2007-02-06 03:03:27 · 11 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I hope not on both counts....
2007-02-06 03:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by Texan 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The deficit is a problem that is just a part of a larger problem; the National Debt. In 1971 the national debt was $480 billion. Today it is somewhere around $10 trillion and in that time the dollar has lost about 80% of its purchasing power.
Raising Taxes is not the answer to fighting national debt, reducing spending is. One way to reducing spending is to stop paying interest on money that we borrower from the Federal Reserve. We can still spend the same amount of money without paying interest. To do that we need to issue coin money. We do not pay interest on the coin that we issue because its value is in the metal from which it is made.
The goal needs to be to curb inflation by increasing the coin money in circulation and creating new coin denominations ($5, $10, $20). Coin is not part of the Federal Reserve System. Coin comes for the US mint. The coins have a real value to them, whereas paper money does not have a real tangible value. A dollar bill cannot be melted down and turned into something else; coin can.
As far as "de-funding" the war, they should do what they promised in their campaigns. If they ran on an anti-war campaign, then they need to refuse to fund the war, and perhaps introduce a bill that would recall the war powers that the congress gave to the President in 2002 to enforce UN Resolution 1441.
2007-02-06 11:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by Marcus 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
raise taxes, well, to fund the war they would have to be raised. I'm all for getting ris of the cuts Bush made to his base. I never saw a gain other than the 300 bucks he sent back. (And had he know Iraq was coming he may have thought he'd better keep hold of it) People that say "cut welfare" don't have any idea how little that costs nowadays. What they should be saying is "Cut Medicare,Medicaid and Social Security" as that is our biggest entitlements.(that and the war) If any politicians came out and said that was thier intention, that party would comely lose all elections for the next 100 years.Everyone should realize a wartimeeconomy is always strong, BUT someone will pay sometime in the long run.
2007-02-06 11:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by popeyethesadist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah that would be a good thing to do, if they want to make sure they never have another President in our lifetime. The problem that the addle brained Dem leadership has is that they went out on a limb saying they will shut the war down, as if it was a Vietnam style conflict, and now will be saddled with the disaster of announcing that thier policy is to cut and run in face of terrorism. It is a fact that individual soldiers are being targeted by terrorists in Iraq to help the Democrats sell their cut and run policy. So already they have become a menace to the safety of the soldiers in the field, just like VN. And then when we have a new terrorist attack in the US the Dems can simply go back under the rock their leadership lives under and maybe we can get a moderate version of the Party that represents the non wacky segments of American society.
2007-02-06 11:09:55 · answer #4 · answered by Tom W 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A tax increase wouldn't actually be needed, per-se. A tax shift would be necessary... increasing the percent of tax the upper class pays and decreasing the tax burden on the lower and middle class would be a good start.
Defunding the war would help deal with the budget situation, but I'm not sure that it's the right way to go. Defunding wouldn't necessarily stop the war, but it could cause other problems.
What they can do is curtail further funding, and that would not be defunding the war, but rather limiting escalation... and that would be acceptible.
Edit: FYI, cutting welfare wouldn't even dent the budget. This is a tired conservative line.
2007-02-06 11:07:46 · answer #5 · answered by leftist1234 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
They will raise taxes.That is what Democrats do. Then they will squander the money on usless things. Like funding a project to see how many deer live in the midwest and find out what can be done to keep them off the grass, or something lame like that.
2007-02-06 11:06:44 · answer #6 · answered by bildymooner 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I don't think they'll defund the war, but i do think they can keep us out of Iran, which is all I want out of the next 2 years. A war in iran = a draft. And I'm 18.
2007-02-06 11:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by Gary W 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Love is the cheapest way to go even if people would love to kill innocent people in a road side cafe or on a bus. Oh wait I really don't make any sense.
2007-02-06 11:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by River 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It will not be necessary for them to raise taxes if they cut welfare...
2007-02-06 11:07:25 · answer #9 · answered by wuxxler 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
love is the cheapest way to go
2007-02-06 11:06:22 · answer #10 · answered by nobody 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋