AND even though you can't squeeze enough money out of all the rich people to run the country for a year, even if you take all their ASSETS as well as income. Then the next year you have . . . no more money.



As it was said, the problem with Socialism is: eventually you run out of other people's money.

 

I heard but havnt verified that a 1 percent sales tax increase across the board would generate enough money for everyone to have free healthcare without hacking up your personal rights or liberties like some other people voted for.

 

That's funny and true. Funny and true should not share a sentence! Money's not going to cure the problem, it's just going to make YOU pay for the problem until eventually the money runs out.



If you guys only knew what the MD government does. People like Martin O'Malley invent new taxes, implement them, and impose penalties if dues are not paid on regular citizens as subsidiaries for budget shortfalls.



They're taken directly from YOUR PAYCHECK, social security, property tax, gas tax, utilities bills, speed cameras...etc. Thus you have NO way of knowing what you're paying for because you see one number cited as a state tax.



How is that fair? The federal cannot balance their budget, the state cannot come up with a balanced budget, YOU pay for it on top of what's already taken from your social security for food stamp program which by the way will only increase while your salary stays the same.

 

1% sales tax increase would be enough to lower our debt a good chunk too.... That whole, lets ty to be responsible with our money as opposed to spending more. I might vote for the latter tax, but never the former.



Giving everyone free health care (which is a misnomer) is hacking up personal rights. It isn't free healthcare for everyone, it is payed healthcare for thsoe that pay taxes, and free health care for those that don't. i.e wealth distribution, i.e. communism. So no, I am not ok paying 1% more taxes for communism.

 

The fun part with a sales tax is you can increase it a tiiiiny amount every year and nobody will notice except the "loud people" who listen to talk radio

 

^Exactly!! And those people are called "extreme rightists."





Eeeeexactly... This is pure logic. I don't see why the people (middle class at that) defending Obamacare don't wake up to this simple correlation. It must mean that they're stupid.

 

A famous chicken once told me, "the sky is falling, the sky is falling!"

 

The sky probably is not, but the global economy is looking alarmingly like it IS.

 

The sky is not falling. Democracy is.



Isn't it ironic that "demos" is the Latin word for "people", yet "democrat" stands for big government rather people?

 

dem·o·crat

[dem-uh-krat] noun 1. an advocate of democracy. 2. a person who believes in the political or social equality of all people.

Origin:

1780–90; < French démocrate, back formation from démocratie democracy





demo-

a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant "people" ( democratic )





-crat

a combining form meaning "ruler," "member of a ruling body," "advocate of a particular form of rule," used in the formation of compound words: autocrat; technocrat.



Origin:

< Greek -kratēs as in autokratḗs autocrat; replacing -crate < French < Greek