Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Why we can't tax ourselves out of the deficit problem. The IRS numbers prove it.

Why we can't tax ourselves out of the deficit problem. The IRS numbers prove it.
American Thinker ^ | 04/05/2011 | Steve McCann

Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 4:45:52 PM by SeekAndFind

Yesterday I was in the belly of the beast: Washington D.C.  At a lunch meeting, which included a number of liberal Democrats, the inevitable subject of the runaway spending and debt came up, particularly in light of Paul Ryan issuing a budget which would go a long way toward curing our financial ills.  While I and others extolled the positive economic effects of dramatically reducing government spending, those on the other side refused to come off the mantra of all we have to do is raise taxes on the rich and that will solve nearly all our problems................................--
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