multiply and divide. Not the newer ones that teach "guesstimation".

of lack of faith in the US to pay its bills. Someone has to pay.

time someone sneezes?

The obvious answer is that they didn't raise revenue nearly enough in January. A glance at graphs of the income escalating inequality in our country and how little the wealthy are taxed now compared to the past make it pretty obvious that the rich haven't been sharing our sacrifices. What's unsustainable is tax cut after tax cut and subsidy after subsidy for the well off while the rest of the country sinks into poverty. Apart from being inhumane, it's a piss-poor way to run a country. It's a threat to our national security, and it's fiscally irresponsible.

There was no 'revenue raised' in that bill. The bill simply prevented some of Shrub's tax cuts from expiring while maintaining 95% of them.

How a tax cut can be deemed a raising revenue is beyond me.

We need to make up that 95% somewhere? That is why we are in a deficit and that is why the Tea Party is screaming and shutting down our government. It's not about spending alone. It is about revenues.

If they don't want to raise revenues (taxes), then don't shut down the government. It costs money and adds to the debit when republicans shut down the government so stop doing it and maybe we won't have to raise taxes so often.

No proposal for deficit reduction which does not raise taxes is a serious attempt at reducing government debt.

All proposals for deficit reduction which concentrate on 'cutting spending' are simply attempts to use 'deficit reduction' as a fig-leaf for changes in policy which cannot be achieved by legitimate democratic means.

And I don't think voters will punish those that point out that the wealthy are simply getting over like fat rats. As the Tea Party likes to say, "it's about fairness"...

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