luinil said:
I wonder how 95% can get a tax cut when only 50% pay taxes to begin with.... |
If it doesn’t matter if you collect as much money as you spend, why collect taxes at all?
They are protesting, because they know that the math does not work out. When you spend money you don’t have, you have to earn it back at some point. To say we are going to double or triple the expenses, but not take any more taxes from people, reminds us all of the famous saying:
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
When he said “we will cross that bridge when we get to it”, what he really meant was “we will put these programs in place that become extremely difficult to remove now, and then we will raise taxes to pay for them later”.
When the people you are manipulating don’t look more then 3 months into the future, it’s easy to sway them.
