Finally some COMMON SENSE!!!!

http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=8e629cf2-eb88-4057-a7b7-7622a0efb494

Praise the LORD!!!! Someone with sense FINALLY!!!!

I am going to spare all logic, and personal opinion in this post. And, am instead, going to post my response in numbers and math.

At the current rate, our government spends 1.4 Trillion a year.

With the exception of numbers 9 and 13, your senator's plan holds NO spending cuts. So, it is safe to assume that this senator is okay with the current rate of government spending.

So here we go, line by line:

1. Revenue Increase of .7 T

2. Revenue Increase of .383 T

3. Revenue Increase of .582 T

4. Revenue Increase of .04 T

5. Revenue Increase of 1 T

6. Revenue Increase of .1 T

7. Revenue Increase of .73 T

8. Revenue Increase of .07 T

9. Spending Cut of .9 T

10. Is thrown out because of conflicting numbers.

11. A Government Expense? of .068 T

12. Revenue Increase of .5 T

13. Spending Cut of .2 T

Grand Total of Raised Taxes, Spending Cuts, etc over 10 years: 5.276 T

Total Government Expenditures over next 10 years: 14.3 T


Deficiency: 9.027 T


The numbers have spoken.

cool let's gut Medicare and Medicare and reduce taxes for
everybody. how many trillions is that gonna bring in??
while we are at it let's reduce the dividend tax from 15
percent down to 0. let's incent every Corp. to move all
of their capital out of our borders so they won't have to
pay their share. and for Gods sake keep the government
out of everything!!!

welcome to Somalia!!

voiceofreason wrote:

cool let's gut Medicare and Medicare and reduce taxes for
everybody. how many trillions is that gonna bring in??
while we are at it let's reduce the dividend tax from 15
percent down to 0. let's incent every Corp. to move all
of their capital out of our borders so they won't have to
pay their share. and for Gods sake keep the government
out of everything!!!

welcome to Somalia!!

You're blind. The dollar is fast becoming worthless due to BHO's fed policy and profligate spending. There will be NO "Medicare or Medicare" (sic) once our dollar has no purchasing power.
Whether you want to believe it or not, we are in a depression brought on by unproductive socialists spending the incomes of the productive members of society.

Vive La Revolucion!

Speaking of numbers, news as of today:

Unemployment RISES to 9.2%

Average number of unmeployment filings per week for the month of June 2011: 400,000

Number of jobs created in the month of June 2011: 18,000