RK ARCHIVE - Republicans Use Debt to Buy Votes

Keep your response short and sweet. Do not go off on tangents. The reason we are unable to make our response stick is we jumble it up with too much complexity. Republicans are crooks, plain and simple. They are running a scam they call "tax relief" where they put our children in debt to buy us off with what they call "tax cuts." It's a scam. It's crooked and it's time to put a stop to it.

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The numbers are clear (Macduff - 10/29/2006 10:47:38 AM)

Since George Allen and George Bush took office, federal spending has increased 42% and the national debt has grown by 49.4%. Each American's share of the national debt is now $28,500. Each family of four now owes $114,000.

Under George's Allen and Bush, a family of 4's share of the national debt rose by $37,700. The median family's increased share of the national debt is more than four times larger than the tax reductions that they supposedly received from the Republicans' tax cuts. When your tax cuts are less than a quarter of your share of the increased debt, you and your children are getting robbed for the sake of Republicans' short-term political gains. Thanks anyway.

China is financing the tax cuts (Jeff B - 10/29/2006 11:56:58 AM)

The average Virginian owes $37,000 to China and Asia. That is roughly 2,300 dollars a year in intrest payments. 37,000 compounded over 30 years means the average Virginian will pay $123,000 in intrest to Chinia and Asia.

So, in manner of speaking (Used2Bneutral - 10/29/2006 12:05:17 PM)

The Bush/Allen team have sold economic assets of the US to China and we now pay rent (the interest payments on the bonds)

It's Not What We Tax, It's What We Spend, Stupid (NukeTeacher - 10/29/2006 12:47:32 PM)

Let;s make this our mantra. The line can be very simple and everyone will understand it. Jim Webb should say:

"We eventually must pay for everything we buy - every consumer knows this. The same is true of our Federal Government. The recless spending by the GOP Congress and President are putting a hige load on future generations in this country. It has got to stop. If elected Senator, I will fight to get this out of control spending train under control."

Immoral (Newport News Dem - 10/29/2006 1:29:44 PM)

It is absolutly immoral and selfish to give tax cuts to yourself only to pass the bill on to your kids and grandkids.

Just another bit of hypocricy of the GOP on their personal responsibility line of bull.

To Quote that Famous Redskin's Football Coach George Allen (Used2Bneutral - 10/29/2006 2:43:50 PM)

"The Future is Now !!!" and in this case that works both ways.... the future is being mortgaged for our kids/grand-kids NOW, entirely to the benefit of a few ultra-rich rather than the whole country......

they've always done this.... (bladerunner - 10/29/2006 4:02:56 PM)

For Bush to say his tax cuts and temporary lower gas prices means more money in people's pockets is like advertisers saying buy this home and get a toaster oven. How F'n dumb do they think we are. Everyone knows when it gets bad, dems come in and fix the economy and then they spend it. Bush'/Allen's tax policy is nothing but utter stupidity. Maybe some day Americans will realize this strategy is pathetic, at best.

"How F'n dumb do they think we are?" (Lowell - 10/29/2006 4:03:59 PM)

The Bush/Allen Republicans think we are all morons. On November 7, let's show them what we think of THAT!

Just another example... (Loudoun County Dem - 10/29/2006 4:35:11 PM)

The Bush/Allen Republicans think we are all morons.

Yet another example of them projecting their faults onto others (us)...