I'm for both. Cut spending and raise taxes. You want to solve a financial problem that is how you do it. Even George H. Bush knew that (and his party hated him for it).
Even Reagan raised taxes in his second term. Republicans nowadays act like the world would explode if you raised taxes. Well, I hate to break it to you, but if we had instituted higher taxes on some of the securitization and hedge funds that were running amuck for the last 5-10 years, we probably wouldn't be in such a shitty situation economically.
When times are good you raise taxes. When times are bad, you cut some of them. Republicans have adopted this mantra that you cut taxes when times are good AND cut taxes when times are bad. They would cut taxes until the government started paying you money if we let them.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
