Sarah Palin -- feds stockpiling bullets incase of civil unrest

[Spata]

D.C.: Cut the Drama. Do Your Job.

Americans are sick and tired of yet another ginned-up crisis. D.C. needs to grow up, get to work, and live within its means. The real economic Armageddon looming before us is our runaway debt, not the sequester, which the President advocated for and signed into law and is now running around denouncing because he never had any genuine intention of reining in his reckless spending.

Remember that this sequestration deal came about because of the long debt ceiling standoff in the summer of 2011. It wasn’t the ideal outcome for anyone, but it did at least include real deficit reduction of about $110 billion per year for 10 years, which is still nowhere near enough to close our massive deficit. Keep in mind that since the sequester passed, the President has already hit American families and small business owners with his tax increases, or “more revenue” as he likes to call it. The American public doesn’t want tax increases; we want government to rein in its overspending.

If we can’t stomach modest cuts that would lower federal spending by a mere 0.3% per year out of a current federal budget of $3.6 trillion, then we might as well signal to the whole world that we have no serious intention of dealing with our debt problem.

If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.

If we ARE serious about putting our fiscal house in order, then let’s stop the hysterics, tighten our belts, and take our medicine.

- Sarah Palin

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[pistolpete2002]

I'm fine with my taxes going up, with one caveat, because I recognize we do need some increased revenue. That one caveat though is reduced spending and a whole lot more than just this .3% sequester. It's time to overhaul health care, Medicare, Medicaid, and social security. It's also past time to look into these lifetime pensions we pay for for congress and a bunch of their other benefits that we the tax payers are footing the bill for. They should have to privately fund their own retirements and quit picking our pockets for more therefore reducing what we can put back for ourselves.

IMO, the entire system is broken and it is past time for a reboot!!

 

[TerryMiller]

While it sounds logical that increased taxes will increase revenue, the opposite is actually what will happen. Revenue will go down. Just within my lifetime, I know of three instances when tax rates were lowered and revenue to the federal treasury actually went up. Those instances were under JFK, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.

Two other times that may have also seen the same effect, but ones that I haven't researched yet, was back in the '20's (remember Roaring Twenties?) and again somewhere around 1948. (I was only 2 years old then, so taxes and revenue didn't really mean much to me.)

If the Democrats would understand it, the more people that are working, the more there is in tax revenue, thus the increase in revenue to the treasury. That is one of the really harmful effects of Obumber's policies. So many jobs have been lost, it is effecting both the general economic growth as well as the revenue. Why else do you think Obumbo is STILL calling for more taxes? They are seeing a drop in revenue because of all the millions of folks out of work.

As to the ammo situation, my wife has a co-worker who is an officer in the National Guard. He told her something to the effect that the military will have problems getting ammunition in order for everyone to re-qualify with their firearms training. So, our "civilian" army of federal law enforcement will have a lot of ammo, the military won't. something is drastically wrong with this picture.

 

[808racer]

I'm fine with my taxes going up, with one caveat, because I recognize we do need some increased revenue. That one caveat though is reduced spending and a whole lot more than just this .3% sequester. It's time to overhaul health care, Medicare, Medicaid, and social security. It's also past time to look into these lifetime pensions we pay for for congress and a bunch of their other benefits that we the tax payers are footing the bill for. They should have to privately fund their own retirements and quit picking our pockets for more therefore reducing what we can put back for ourselves.

IMO, the entire system is broken and it is past time for a reboot!!

I agree ....except the part about taxes going up. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. It's already been proven that even if they simply confiscated every dime over $250,000 earned by individual and corporations (not taxed at a higher rate, but confiscated), it would only run the government for a matter of weeks. So, raising tax rates accross the board doesn't even begin to address the issue. It would be like me going out buying a multi-million dollar house on credit, then telling my boss I needed a 5% raise in salary to pay my new monthly mortgage. The math just doesn't add up.