Taxes for Good
Wanted to see a bit about what's happening with the Rita Hurricane...watched PBS and then NBC and then ABC. I found it interesting that many of the reports coming out of Congress/Senate is about pet projects and cutting back of them to scrap up money for rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf.
However, this whole issue is to side step the real question. The real question is not about cutting back on projects (regardless of need based). The real question is about Taxes. The real question is do we or do we not apply a surtax on high incomes of $200,000 of say $1000? This would be the right thing to do. This and if most of Congress/Senators donated 1 year of their salaries (which I'm sure, they really don't need).
Another aspect of all this...is stressed relief crews and volunteers. If Bush, did pull out all the troops from Iraq and decided this was not the way to "liberate" people, American people might actually want to join the National Guard. If you want to help your country and join the National Guard but are afraid to be shipped off to Iraq, of course you're not going to join.
Also, I would be happy to pay more taxes if that meant they were going to help people...not to kill them such as in the Iraq war.
However, this whole issue is to side step the real question. The real question is not about cutting back on projects (regardless of need based). The real question is about Taxes. The real question is do we or do we not apply a surtax on high incomes of $200,000 of say $1000? This would be the right thing to do. This and if most of Congress/Senators donated 1 year of their salaries (which I'm sure, they really don't need).
Another aspect of all this...is stressed relief crews and volunteers. If Bush, did pull out all the troops from Iraq and decided this was not the way to "liberate" people, American people might actually want to join the National Guard. If you want to help your country and join the National Guard but are afraid to be shipped off to Iraq, of course you're not going to join.
Also, I would be happy to pay more taxes if that meant they were going to help people...not to kill them such as in the Iraq war.
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