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2007-05-12 Home Front Economy

Revenue Collections Hit Record High in April, Improve Budget Deficit

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Posted by gorb 2007-05-12 00:54|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If it ain't 100% perfect, fix it until it is!

Fix it until it is broke, that is!

Posted by gorb 2007-05-12 02:31|| 2007-05-12 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Congress just does not get the concept of "spending restraint". We need a line item veto and a legitimate fiscal conservative as our president before we can get out of the red.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-05-12 02:59|| 2007-05-12 02:59|| Front Page Top

#3 White House Budget Director Rob Portman said the surge in tax revenues over the past two years was directly related to the economic rebound spurred by the Bush tax cuts........~~and millions of Mexicans working here "illegally" but paying taxes~~. He said Congress should reject efforts to roll back the tax relief.

The scheme continues.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-05-12 06:01|| 2007-05-12 06:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Thank you, gorb dear. What a lovely bonbon with which to start the weekend!

a bunch of insecure self-righteous power-hungry hypocritical myopics
Ouch.

his proposals to bolster Social Security with personal savings accounts has gone nowhere in Congress.
*shrug* Those of us coming up behind the baby boom understand there isn't going to be any Social Security money for our retirement, except for the very poor. We're saving on our own, tax break or no. (Mr. Wife wants to ensure I'm not a burden on our great-grandchildren, should I live to 120 as I keep threatening.)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-12 06:42|| 2007-05-12 06:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Jeez, it's all BS, everyones bedwetting about the defecit and the NATIONAL DEBT. Yawl ever think of your grandchillrun? Don't want to leave them a piece of the bill? Why the hell not? Those little unborn tykes should shoulder a burder of what makes them free. Ima talking about the Virginias, the Improved Nimitz's, the cost of bringing freedom to Iraq and the Aghans, it right that they should pay. Is there a damn cost accountant left alive? Hell if you amortized the cost of a B-52 over 50 years it would come down to less than the cost of keeping open the Capps Post Office.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-12 07:49|| 2007-05-12 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Meanwhile..the tax bill at the state and local level continue to rise.

Remember when you're paying more than 50% of the product of your labor or skill to the government in one form or another regardless of level, we've returned to a tax based serfdom.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-12 10:07|| 2007-05-12 10:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you, gorb dear. What a lovely bonbon with which to start the weekend!

Other than that, they're a mostly OK bunch. Except for a few exceptions that I can think of. :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-05-12 21:14|| 2007-05-12 21:14|| Front Page Top

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