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Originally posted by bethany1982
The Democrats have already cut education and raised the fees for higher education in recent months, after promising not to touch either in the last election.
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My desire generally is to try not to make decisions on a "Republican/Democrat -- Conservative/Liberal" reasoning because I don't consider myself any of the above.
And, I'm pretty tired of hearing the sanctimonious baying from both sides.
However, when the present governor of Colorado (Republican) took office, the state had a huge budget surplus handed over by the previous governor and fairly evenly divided legislature. He ran on a tax cut platform, cut taxes and now we have a huge budget crisis.
President Bush ran on a tax cut platform. There was allegedly a surplus and we were paying off the national debt. So, we get a nominal tax cut, and a very expensive war at the same time. I might be OK with one or the other. But do the Arithmetic -- it's not even tough enough to be called Math. You simply can't spend more and take in less and expect it to work -- I don't care which party is in or who is President.
Unless, of course, you drastically cut costs and programs.
By the time tax cuts are spread across the general population, they really don't mean much in terms of spendable income. They are a purely political animal -- something to get people elected -- and, unfortunately the average taxpayer/voter doesn't realize how little it actually puts back in her/his pocket as opposed to the effect on the lives of everyone.
Edited to try to catch all of the typos and spelling errors.