xxdr_zombiexx

I dont care what the voices in my head say about you.... yer all right

Thanks a bunch dude. That kindly improves my weekend.

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There's no money for your issue so long as we're squandering $50 billion a year on the DrugWar. Ben Masel

mikez

I'm so on top of it... I already got my refunds deposited straight into my bank account. (That free electronic filing is all right!) But I should fess up that as usual I was a disorganized slob ... it was my wife who got it done early.

Last year we owed... so much that we got fined for not having more taken out up front. (It was news to us.)

Bush supposedly gets credit for delivering tax cuts. The reality is we all got whopping tax increases the past few years. We just didn't pay up front. It's like an appliance salesman bragging about "price cuts," but when you go in to check it out you find the price has increased 50% but you only have to pay half in cash. The rest goes on your credit card. So that's a "price cut" because more money stays in your pocket (until the bill arrives). Bush has gone on a spending spree, funded by record levels of borrowing. But the borrowing wasn't on his credit card, it was on ours. We have to pay every cent, plus interest. Great favor to the taxpayers to pile on the debt burden like there's no tomorrow.

Of course Bush's spending on the military has been exorbitant. But even "domestic discretionary spending" has been a blowout. E.g. from an article in slate: Fuggin borrow and spend republicans. They wouldn't suck so much if they at least had one principle they would stick to.

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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson.

smoking_joe_lee

Principle and politics, they both start with 'p' but have little else in comman.
As for Bush, to the best of my knowlege he has never refered to himself as a fiscal conservative. This is someone who spends tax dollars as if he knows and cares people worked hard to earn them. Frugal is the word I am looking for.
Bush calls himself a compassionate conservative. This term never came up in my college political science class but my best guess is that it is a conservative who spends like a liberal. The medicare prescription plan is one example. It gives seniors some break on prescription drugs and doesn't leave out the drug companies.

"Unquestionably there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages." Henry Louis Mencken 1880-1956