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From taxpayers' pockets?

OmegaWolf747

Aug 15, 2013, 8:34 AM
It's a worthy cause, but can't they raise the money some other way? My phone bill comes out to just over $100 per month.
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drizzt545

Aug 15, 2013, 9:51 AM
yes they could tax prepay service the same way they do contract phone lines.
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ButtaKnife

Aug 15, 2013, 11:39 AM
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.
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tjobrien21

Aug 15, 2013, 12:49 PM
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!
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Zpike

Aug 15, 2013, 1:50 PM
Balance the FRICKIN budget and come in under it just ONCE! And then you can talk to me about taxes.
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Teacher30909

Aug 16, 2013, 9:07 AM
Under President Clinton we balanced the budget and had the highest surplus in history in 2000. Then President Bush decides to give tax holidays and the budget shot up.
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DarkStar

Aug 16, 2013, 4:18 PM
How did we balance the budget and the National Debt still went up?
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Teacher30909

Aug 18, 2013, 1:03 PM
The budget was balance his last year in offices. Not before.
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DarkStar

Aug 18, 2013, 3:15 PM
Now was it his balance or does congress control the budget and the president signs off on it?
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Teacher30909

Aug 19, 2013, 4:09 PM
Both.
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DarkStar

Aug 19, 2013, 4:38 PM
And wasn't congress at the time a Republican majority. So it was actually the Repubicans who balanced the budget and Clinton just signed off on it and took the credit. Interesting.
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T Bone

Aug 16, 2013, 8:35 PM
If the budget was 'balanced' under Clinton then how the national debt still went up during those years of a supposed 'surplus'? The definition of a 'surplus' is that the national debt doesn't go up.....a surplus which makes the national debt increase is complete nonsense.
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Zpike

Aug 18, 2013, 4:11 AM
That's an outright liberal lie. Maybe you don't remember the government shutting down twice as Republicans forced Clinton to balance the budget, but I do. Clinton didn't balance anything, the Republican Congress did. Furthermore, the so-called surplus was only on paper, as the government spent in excess of the budget. Also, as others have already mentioned the national deficit continued to climb the entire time Clinton was in office.

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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Teacher30909

Aug 18, 2013, 1:01 PM
I was not starting a Dem vs Rep. thing. But the last year of Clinton time in office there was a budget surplus. Look it up. The dept went up every year he was in office until then. But at the end the budget was balanced and the was a surplus.

As far as Taxes, you right. We can not balance the budget solely on raising taxes, you need to cut spending as well.
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Slammer

Aug 18, 2013, 12:20 PM
I have to disagree with you Teacher.

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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Teacher30909

Aug 18, 2013, 1:02 PM
Again, I agree with the whole we need to spend less. All I was saying is that there was a time in my lifetime, I was born in 1978, that the budget - at lest on paper - was balanced.
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LibtardExposer

Aug 16, 2013, 2:37 PM
Improving the schools ? Children don't even know the basics anymore I am 29 and I can honestly say school was a joke when I went through it! I never really learned anything useful! They are dumbing down our children and people think they are going to improve the system we have? I mean in NC we created the NC Education lottery and I can say people tried to warn the people that money would not go to education as they promised and just that has happened! If they really wanted to get this country on the right track these free handouts to people who are able to work and get off their lazy bones would stop ! I mean I know some need help but I see people abusing food stamps all the time and that just pisses me off and it happens in other things all...
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DarkStar

Aug 16, 2013, 4:19 PM
Lol so LibtardExposer you and I do not agree on cellphones at all but we totally agree on politics. But I say that is more important. lol.
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Zpike

Aug 22, 2013, 2:09 PM
In principle I would say it is more important to agree on politics. But since both political parties utterly ignore their base, making all our political opinions practically useless, and since I can still actually choose what cell phone I get, it seems more practically important to agree on cell phones.
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DarkStar

Aug 22, 2013, 2:29 PM
Decent point. I would vote for you for political office. Even you choose the wrong cellphone. lol.
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Zpike

Aug 23, 2013, 11:57 AM
ROFL
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T Bone

Aug 15, 2013, 12:24 PM
Yeah, it's called 'let the private sector handle it'....

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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