Nilatai wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Nilatai wrote:
US needs to be taxed more, not less. Stupid Conservatives.
Well, with such a strong argument supporting that statement, you must be right!
Your government can't pay for itself as it is. The answer is not to tax less. It's either spend less and tax the same, or spend the same and tax more.
These are the only reasonable solutions.
But not raising taxes, when compared to raising taxes is "taxing less", right? I get that you're responding directly to Varus and the whole tax holiday thing, but your statement can also be taken as an attack on those who are merely opposed to raising taxes as a solution to our current economic woes. It's also broad enough to be taken as an attack on the general position of "taxing less", which is generally a much longer term argument.
Increased spending tends to lead to more increased spending. The "in for a penny" factor comes into play. You create new programs and those programs grow, increasing the total rate of spending increase over time. Whatever precise effects occur, it's a pretty easy trend to see. Similarly, when you start cutting programs (especially if you can actually eliminate them entirely), the shrinking spending effect tends to increase over time. The argument for taxing less is that if you can cut those taxes, and then learn to live within the means which result, it becomes progressively easier to continue to cut off those government programs. People realize that they don't really need that stuff after all. Then they realize that a bunch of stuff they're paying for isn't really needed.
Heaven forbid we work towards that goal. It would be a disaster, right? ;)
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Just for the record, the UK tried the "cut everything" route, hasn't worked out so well for us.
Yeah, because that's been the driving principle behind government spending for the last 30 years.