Obama Would Raise Cell Phone Taxes to Fund Broadband
From taxpayers' pockets?
ButtaKnife said:
My monthly bill is more than that, but I'd be willing to pay two bits extra if it means improving our schools' connectivity. Honestly, the pushback on it is because "taxes", not because it's actually an amount of taxation that would make any bit of difference on our bills.
That's definitely the pushback, because taxes tend to never go away, and they usually grow to bigger and bigger amounts.
I don't agree with any new taxes of any type for any reason until government waste and inefficiency are largely addressed first!
Furthermore, you are completely ignorant if you think raising taxes will balance the budget. You can tax the top 5% wealthy people 100% of their income and the budget still won't be balanced. Perhaps you cannot fathom a number like trillion, but its really big and forcing the wealthy to pay more won't solve ...
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As far as Taxes, you right. We can not balance the budget solely on raising taxes, you need to cut spending as well.
The Government is made up of financial magicians. They can shift the numbers to placate one area while leaving out the others. From what I understand, there are two things that make up the total country's debt. The public debt and the intergovernmental holdings(IGH). I don't know the full aspects of what it entails, but I do know that in order for Clinton to balance the public debt, he borrowed heavily from the IGH such as Social Security and other holdings. Each year he balanced the the budget from 1998-2000, the IGH borrowing in contrast, went up causing more debt. We the public are now held more accountable to pay back what we already saved for. His council skewed numbers my friend. Just like most o...
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Seriously, the government is already fricking bankrupt, we are already worse off than Greece, we don't have the money to go on another massive 'infrastructure building' exercise....and it isn't the government job to do it in the first place....
It's like we're at a blood drive, they've already taken 7 pints of blood and they're asking 'oh come on, just one more pint', while we're practically dropping dead from what they've already taken....
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