Off-Topic: WHen Bush cut taxes?!?!?
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MartiniMan
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WHen Bush cut taxes?!?!?
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12/21/2012 3:26:40 PM
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Tell me you are joking Archie. Are you that ill informed??!?!?........wait a second, don't answer that, i already know that you are. i refer you to revenues to the Treasury during the Bush years for your answer.
2003 -- $1.78 trillion
2004 -- $1.88 trillion
2005 -- $2.15 trillion
2006 -- $2.40 trillion
2007 -- $2.56 trillion
Tax revenues in the four years after the Bush rates went into effect increased over $780 billion which is the largest increase in a four year period in the history of the country. Tax revenues decreased in 2008 to $2.52 billion with the recession but still were higher than any of the years prior to 2007. Facts Archibald, stubborn things aren't they? So my ill informed left wing nut, which do you prefer, high tax rates or higher revenues to the treasury to reduce the deficits? i already know the answer to that one as well......you are really interested in punishing the job creators and don't give a rats behind about deficits.
As for how he spent the money and the deficits that were incurred, i think it is entirely reasonable to argue against the cost of the wars and i respect anyone's opinion on that. My opinion is that the war in Afghanistan was the right war in the right place at the right time and your blessed messiah agrees with me. As for iraq, that too can be reasonably argued to have been unnecessary, especially in hindsight. But like all those Democrat Senators, including Hillary Clinton, knowing what we knew at the time i too would have voted for it.
What i opposed is the increases in entitlement spending on programs like prescription drugs. i was all for reforming Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so they do not bankrupt the country. i would have reined in Fannie and Freddie so the housing market would no longer be so wildly distorted and would have averted the meltdown. i would be eager to provide you with a long list of federal agencies that i would abolish which would save hundreds of billions each year. i would have vigorously opposed the porkulus because i know it would not work and would be the amazing waste of borrowed money that it was.
You see Archie, you argue from a position of incorrect facts and beliefs....but you hold onto them stubbornly out of pride and ignorance. i believe what i believe because it is true.
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