You mean I'm a liar?

Sylvin certainly not. Being that you are a public school teacher yourself, I can understand that your objectivity could be off center in a discussion concerning the delivery of an excellent education through a government run system . I have a very hard time believing hat ta public school in socialist France would ever come close to being nearly as good as private education. Private is always better, and a long record of achievement certainly proves it. I believe I have made my point, and any further input would just be beating a dead horse. Therefore, I won't respond to this thread in the future. Anyway, have a wonderful week. The best to you and your family. - Millet (1,170-)

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the Senate bill would reduce deficits by $130 billion over the next decade. It would do so partly by raising various taxes and by reducing federal spending on Medicare, Medicaid and other programs by $491 billion over 10 years.

mrtexas wrote:

The problem in Washington has never been not enough taxes, of course it is excessive spending of other people's money. Funny thing about raising taxes, the higher the tax rates the lower the revenue. I certainly deplore the Bush 2 administration myself for spending like Democrats! Of course the liberals won't take responsibility for the economic implosion caused by the Pelosi and Frank Community Re-development Act forcing banks to lend to people who couldn't pay back. My goodness, the banks are audited on compliance with the CRA and berated if they don't have enough poor quality loans and pressured to get in compliance. My information on the CRA comes not from the Bush administration but my banker brother who is a vice-president in charge of rating loans for Washington Federal Savings and Loan one of the banks forced to buy bad loans by the Fed to comply with CRA. Poor people "deserve" to own real estate irregardless of the ability to pay. The most laughable change a few years back, the liberals once again raised the max amount for conforming loans so that the poor suffering people in inflated housing markets could pay inflated prices for their real estate and have good old Fannie and Freddie still buy the loans at the standard interest rate rather than the higher rates for jumbo loans, throwing gasoline on the fire at the same time. Most laughable now is branding the liberal left's latest great idea of giving away health care as "health care reform" AND claiming that it won't inflate the deficit(a 1 trillion dollar+ deficit as far as the eye can see being morally superior to the piker Republican's mere 400 billion deficits) What a laugh with Medicare costing 10 times the amount projected to be spent before passage. And then paying for the mess by a tax surcharge of the most productive of citizen known to the liberals as the rich because they can "afford" to pay and it is only "fair" that the needy not have to pay for the government largess they so richly deserve to receive at someone else's expense. Once again soak the most productive citizens to pay benefits to the non-tax payers because they deserve "fill in the blank" and can't pay for it themselves. The greatest threat to our republic is the growing concentration of tax paying by an ever smaller percentage of tax payers with the top few % paying greater than 50% of the total. 60+% of the population paying little to no income tax. What self interest exists for the non-tax payer to support fiscal responsibility? None of course as it is not their money being spent. Spending other peoples money so easy! Guess who the non-tax payers elect? The politicians who promise the most giveaways.

You believe in Democratic fairy tales that any government program can save money or reduce spending! Funny thing about raising taxes. It never increases revenue. The problem is excessive government spending that never goes down.

Vote Democrat, it's easier than thinking

Exactly.