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Untax and spend.....
May. 17th, 2003 10:42 pmWell, one of MY senators in congress, George Voinovich, who vowed to vote against any tax cut over $350 billion, caved in to Republican party peer pressure and voted for this tax cut on Thursday. What a sell-out.
I'm not confident that this tax rollback is going to stimulate the economy. I'll probably put mine towards my credit card debt. Also, we're running up a huge deficit with Homeland Security and the war in Iraq. This year's deficit probably wipes out the gains we made in the last few years of Clinton's presidency. A few more years of this, and it won't be long until this country is in default, just like Argentina is now.
To quote a song by Terry McGovern called "Beam Me Up Scotty", "The rich folks get richer, and the poor still are poor, and the middle class work for the banks." (I heard it on Dr. Demento years ago. The song's definitely Trek-inspired, but I don't know if it can be classified as filk.)
I'm a firm believer in the Golden Rule -- those who have the gold make the rules. And the ones really calling the shots in Washington are the political parties themselves -- namely, the Big Two: Democrats and Republicans. It's like two fat boys on a seesaw who won't let anyone else ride.
I'm not confident that this tax rollback is going to stimulate the economy. I'll probably put mine towards my credit card debt. Also, we're running up a huge deficit with Homeland Security and the war in Iraq. This year's deficit probably wipes out the gains we made in the last few years of Clinton's presidency. A few more years of this, and it won't be long until this country is in default, just like Argentina is now.
To quote a song by Terry McGovern called "Beam Me Up Scotty", "The rich folks get richer, and the poor still are poor, and the middle class work for the banks." (I heard it on Dr. Demento years ago. The song's definitely Trek-inspired, but I don't know if it can be classified as filk.)
I'm a firm believer in the Golden Rule -- those who have the gold make the rules. And the ones really calling the shots in Washington are the political parties themselves -- namely, the Big Two: Democrats and Republicans. It's like two fat boys on a seesaw who won't let anyone else ride.
