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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Forget the amount!
	Date:	11/23/2008 8:27:51 PM

That's the proverbial double-edged sword, bad economy equals less revenue to the federal government which in turn drives up the deficit. Here's an idea....how about the federal government does what we all have to do when income goes down? We eliminate unnecessary expenditures. What bothers me is the assumption that while everyone is tightening their belt the only answer that comes from liberals is to raise taxes so government can continue to grow and intrude on our lives.

Raising taxes won't help the economy, it will cripple it further. Raising taxes won't create jobs, it will result in lost jobs. Despite the carping about the deficits what do you want t bet that Obama/Reid/Pelosi will all the sudden tell us they don't matter. All that will matter to them is paying back all the various constituencies that brought them to power by redistribution of wealth. It has been tried in the past and has failed.

Here would be an interesting test of my theory. Obama/Reid/Pelosi come together and say they will extend the Bush tax cuts for an additional four years. I would bet that would begin a significant improvement in consumer sentiment and spending, businesses would open up with new investment and the economy would begin to show signs of life.......sadly my experiment will never happen so we will never know. We only know what happened to the U.S. economy when he instituted these tax cuts.