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Originally Posted by Azure
Still doesn't take away from the point afc is making. He is exactly right. We want subsidies to keep our prices low, we want low-income housing, subsidized education, free food, new military gadgets, etc, etc.....but we don't want to pay for them with more taxes, therefore the government is forced to borrow money in order to provide us with those services.
At least that is how it works in the US.
They want to spend $700 billion on the military, $2 trillion on 'welfare', not to mention pork spending that each Congressman sets aside to make sure he/she gets voted back in, but when it comes to actually PAYING for all that stuff? No new taxes. They want LOWER taxes, while at the same time they INCREASE government spending.
Somehow the US thinks that the tooth fairy is going to make their debt/deficit disappear instead of realizing that either they increase taxes or decrease spending.
The answer is almost certainly half and half.
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I don't think Americans "asked" for Congress to bail out the banks. The bankers convinced Congress with fear tactics to pass the bail out.
I don't think Americans "asked" the military industrial complex to spend trillions of dollars to invade most of the Middle East to hunt down Bin Laden.
Did Americans "ask" for billions in "foreign aid" to be passed around the globe?
Did Americans "ask" Donald Rumsfeld to inform them on Sept 10/01 that the Pentagon "misplaced" $2.3 trillion worth of funds? Of course the next day the whole world forgot about that....
They are
abusing the power that the voters give them, and the system is set up so they don't pay any consequences.....