The Blue Board

Why are you acting like this would affect everyone?

Edit: did you not see all my freaking exemptions and deductions. GTFO with your philosophical BS.

Technically it adds to the deficit because future deficits are based on current laws, baseline budgeting etc.

So the former deficits had the lapse of the Bush Era Tax Cuts taken into account.

However, it still needs full negotiations on the rest of the deficit reduction.

Also, these figures always are for ten years.

Yes. Exactly right.

Because it 's a general principal. Just like your "class warfare" stance (soak the rich) is a philosophical stance.

BTW, I'm not one of the "rich" (my taxes didn't go up today)...although I do aspire to such heights.

We've got to cut spending obviously. Dropping the military from high 700 billions to ~600 would be smart. IYAM. We are safe, secure and dominant. Close down 15-20 overseas bases.

Start funneling dollars over next 3 years from endless tanks, planes and such towards cyber security.

If we make simple, smart cuts we can get back to tenable.

Let's wait to see what the market says tomorrow.

That's a good point. Frankly our system is set up to prevent us from ever making decisions by allowing our freakin politicians to distort and hide the decisions behind platitudes and political mis-information.

IMHO, the only real solution is to remove this power from the hands of Congress/White House. It could be done with 3 constitutional amendments that both removes a lot of FUD and forces us (American Voters) to make real, often hard decisions.

Amendments:
1) Current and future year balanced budget required. No exceptions period. No unfunded State mandates.
2) Flat income tax rate with a individual $10k/individual income exemption, no deductions period with tax receipts = budget.
3) Bi-annual popular vote to determine budget pct. by major dept/line-item from among say 4 options.

"Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1927

4% on education is unacceptable. Also, we pay 24% in healthcare for privatization and a mixed bag of handouts while other civilized countries with real 'universal healthcare' pay 8-10% but fuck it....'murca.

Correct, but I think it needs more national funding as well. We could get into a multitude of philosophical discussions on here about how states with more money and thus more funding shouldn't have to hurt their education systems to help out states that don't, blah blah blah, we could go on forever. The fact is, we're a nation comprised of states and people move from state to state and we, as a whole, are what makes America. We owe it to every state and every person to make every education system as good as possible.

IMO of course.

Right. I don't have any numbers to back this up at the moment, which means I could be totally off base, but I'm willing to bet there's a pretty clear cut relationship between a state's revenue/taxes/population size and their quality of education.

I just checked and my companies accountant never changed the deduction for payroll holiday. What are the chances I get that overpayment back?