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Mitt and Ryan want to cut taxes for the rich, there is no dispute about that. The question is, though, just what is it that they do not want those like themselves to pay for? They make it sound like they don't want to pay for people on welfare or they don't want to pay for social security for those who will come of that age in the future, or that they don't want to the Government paying for any more subsidies to renewable energy projects, they may tell you about all sort of things they don't want their money going out for but that is really a ruse. In truth what they are avoiding saying is that although they were instrumental in creating the nation's debt they in fact want you to pay it off, not them. While they hoot and holler about what they don't want to pay for in the future that is really nonsense, what they really mean is they don't want the rich to pay back the money that was borrowed. It is the past they want you and I to pay for; they want us to pay off the debt. This isn't about future spending, is about them hiding from what they owe. They don't want to pay for the roads they have been using or the military they have been abusing, they want the little people to pay it off. That's what their call for lower taxes for the rich is about ... unless my thinking is all wrong. What say you?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)He was talking about how we've spent so much money we don't have and just ran up the debt! That's TRUE. but he failed to admit that most of that borrowed money was to pay for the 2 wars HIS Republican compadres decided to start!
EC
(12,287 posts)our troops is to protect private oil business.
chowder66
(9,011 posts)"In truth what they are avoiding saying is that although they were instrumental in creating the nation's debt they in fact want you to pay it off, not them."
You're thinking is all wrong....to the 1% that is.
Progressive dog
(6,862 posts)They already stole it, now they want to keep it.