I Don't Vote for Tax Hikers

1.  Under Clinton we saw a vibrant, growing economy despite tax hikes.  23 Million new jobs created, unemployment was down below 4% when he left office, and has never been that low since.

2.  Under Clinton, for the first time in a generation, the debt-service clock that monitors the amount of growth in the debt S-L-O-W-E-D, and o frabjous day, for a brief moment in 2000 actually came to a STOP!  And then started goin BACKWARDS, as a budget surplus became a reality.

3.  It was AL GORE who went over the heads of a Republican majority, and cast the tie-breaking vote that made a balanced-budget amendment a reality.

4.  Obama will raise taxes on Corporations and people making over a quarter mill a year.  I feel really bad for them, how ever will they survive??  Not.

5.  For the most part, the Discretionary part of the Budget; that is to say that part which the Congress can actually appropriate and spend (Unlike NON-DISCRETIONARY, such as debt service and SS payments), has seen impressive growth in one area:  Defense.  50% increase from 2000 under Clinton, as the Pentagon ran wild and war and Homeland Security expenses overwhelmed the Budget.

6.  Expenses for things like Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, etc. have largely stayed the same when adjusted for inflation.

7.  Pork-barrel and other infrastructure expenses were tiny compared to the cost of the occupation of Iraq.

8.."Fiscal Conservatives" is an oxymoron:  If you support a growing, engaged, well-funded, deployed  military, you may be a stupid Conservative, but you are not fiscally responsible. 

9. You should read your Constitution, where the Founding Fathers not only made sure the President  was, and remained a Civilian, but limited war  powers and appropriations both in term and usage wherever possible.

Clinton did not raise taxes during the last seven years of his administration  Clinton had a Repulblican Congress during his last six years and could not start a single new entitlement program or expand existing program. In addition, the Clinton Administration benefited for the irrational dot.com boom.

Of course the Republicans did fail in 2001 with tax cuts with matching budget cuts.  No one should take any Repubican seriously unless the propose tax cuts to match or exceed any budget cuts.  The Republicans failed to make any budget cuts from 2001 t0 2006 but voted for new entitlement programs and for massive defense spending.

In the future, conservatives should only talk about budget cuts instead of tax cuts.

My knowledge of economics is limited to a couple of college classes and trying to stretch a teacher's salary to the end of the month,  but "tax ands spend" seems  intuitively to be a much smarter policy than "borrow from China and spend."  I'm quite sure it was Reagan that ran up large defictis, followed by a budget surplus in the final Clinton years, back to big deficits under Bush policies.   Hmm, which is the party with a better record of fiscal responsibility? (and a strong economy where growth benefitted people of all  income levels))

Also why all the talk of Obama raising taxes when most of us are part of the 80-90% non-rich who will see tax cuts under Obama proposals.  Why so much empathy for the wealthy, whose lifestyles will not change while make a greater contribution to the common good?

...gutted the military.  Reduced military spending to such dangerous levels which gave a "go" signal to our enemies.  Which they exploited.  That really saved a lot of tax money didn't it?  And thats nuthin' compared to what Obama will do.   Obama will make Bill Clinton look like George Patton. 

We're talking Republican issues here. The dem's have totally discredited themselves and proven themselves as untrustworthy in running our nation.  I've many problems w/the GOP and I have a right to be critical because I vote GOP.   However, the worst Republican is a mega-improvement over the best that the dem's have to offer. 

Mark my words, the democrat party is terminal.  They've destroyed themselves by moving too far to the anti-US left.  I give them maybe 10 years.

I also agree that there is a need for a more nation-centric 2nd party to replace the terminal dem's. DD 

1.  Clinton did not "gut the military".  It was Clinton's military which won absurdly easy victories in Afghanistan and then Iraq.  But it was Rumsfeld who allowed Bush's folly of occupation and nation-building to first misuse and then dismantle the fine fighting machine that had been built as a quick-strike overwhelming force.  Please examine your ideology in light of history and reality.

2.  We were not attacked on 911 by any Army or nation or government "taking advantage pf our weakness".  We were made victims by 22 Saudis with boxcutters and plastic knives and the willingness to die for what they were led to believe.

3.  "Higher taxes retard Economic Growth" .  If you believe that, you have your head up your ass and you believe in Larry Kudlow, the Laffer curve, and supply-side Reaganomics.  All of these are cynical, perverse  fantasies. 

Please explain as an exercise in reality how then Clinton's Economy raised GDP, raised tax revenues, raised new jobs by 23 million, lowered unemployment every month he was in office, created more new businesses and new millionaires and raised the DOW and NASDAQ more than any President or Economic period in our History, while at the same time fighting and beating Newt Gingrich and raising taxes.  See, businesses and millionaires have no problem with taxes.  It's only idiots like Norquist and Conservatives who refuse to pay the freight of success in America.