PA budget

[tw]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Except that every time the economy gets good again, taxes get cut again. Things are only tight right now because taxes were lowered after the Clinton surplus years.

Then look where taxes were cut. The average worker saw almost no tax reductions. I know from personal experience that as income increased, tax cuts approached 50% reduction. Many of America's richest people and largest corporations paid almost nothing.

This thread will continue here and elsewhere due to so many myths. For example, an America that wants to get productive again would eliminate all ethanol from corn. Would eliminate corporate welfare that now increases America prescription drug prices by 40%. A 20% across the board reduction in military spending. Remove $1+ billion per year of military aid to Israel. Eliminate the $1billion per year we spend to manufacturer $1 paper bills. But those are sacred cows for the 'powers that be'. Cannot happen in a Congress so dominated only by extremists due to gerrymandering.

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Originally Posted by tw

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Eliminate the $1billion per year we spend to manufacturer $1 paper bills. --snip.

With the recent rise in the price of cotton, it now costs $0.10 to print a dollar bill (regardless of denomination).