Is it hypocritical for Republicans to be for less taxes when they are shifting the taxes to future generations

Question

The National Debt is now about $9 trillion. Republicans have done most of the spending but refuse to pay for it. When Democratics try to balance the budget Republicans complain about higher taxes. Future generations will have to deal with this debt. by probably paying much higher taxes. Does all this seem hypocritical to you ?
http://www.lafn.org/politics/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html

Answer 1

Especially when they call them selves conservatives!The only way they conserve is their own wealth..........so they can leave it for their kids without paying any estate(death) taxes!

Answer 2

Facts:
1) These numbers are not adjusted for inflation. If you were to look at them adjusted, GWB's debt levels do NOT increase dramatically as you are attempting to show.
2) The greatest President of our generation, Ronald Reagan, was deep in the Cold War (maybe you've heard of it) where we successfully bankrupted Russia. Probaby not a good investment right??
3) President Bush is also in a war to protect our country and is spending more on upgrading our military to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Much more than I can say for Clinton who got the benefit of our winning the Cold War AND dramatically decreased our defense budget.
4) The US economy created tremendous tax revenues during the late 1990's and resulted in less debt for the country.
5) Carter spent nearly nothing on defense.

Enough said.

Answer 3

I could write a book about this one.

When Regan was in office we were told that generations of "Americans" would have to pay off his budget deficit. Yeah, twelve years later with a military striped of the armor and equipment needed to fight in a war the United States had a budget surplus.

Who wrote the budget in 2002 and most of the 2003 budget? Guess who, it was Billy Boy Clinton who took armor and equipment from troops to balance the budget and when that armor had to be expedited, because Democrats demanded it, the cost was near double what it would have cost originally. The US tax payer gets screwed and GWB is blamed by people whose idea of education is pure propaganda.

Of course when 9/11 came with the nation's emergency management structure and defensive systems destroyed by budget cuts it was GWB's fault that there was no armor on Humvees the Clinton administration grudgingly paid the lowest possible price for.

I cannot believe how much garbage Democrats shovel out and how many people chew it up and regurgitate it onto boards like this.

Answer 4

i love how the guy above blames clinton and democrats for wanting to cut spending in the 90s and how we had to go buy military equipment for the illegal iraq invasion totally missing the point of the question

Answer 5

I'm being taxed as a foreigner, but can't vote...IMO that's the cut-and-dry definition of taxation without representation.

Answer 6

i love how the guy above blames clinton and democrats for wanting to cut spending in the 90s and how we had to go buy military equipment for the illegal iraq invasion totally missing the point of the question

Answer 7

you do realize that by the CBOs estimates (headed by a brookings institute scholar by the way) the deficit under current conditions will be in the positive by 2015.

you do also understand that medicare and medicaid will exceed the entire federal budget by 2046 according to those same people.

Answer 8

Yes, that's one of the problems with constantly running for re-election. No one wants to be the bad guy and make the decision that he knows is good for the country, but will hurt him in the next election. So they borrow from China.

Answer 9

Yep - but it's ironic the cons complain that the dems but votes with welfare (ridiculous), but buy votes themselves with promises of tax cuts.

Answer 10

Spend… spend... spend…
Somewhere down the line, somebody somewhere is going to pay the bill or file bankruptcy on it.

Answer 11

Yes, and I'm a Republican if given only the two major choices.