On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > The US spend more on defense than the rest of the world's governments > combined by a factor of 2 or 3 times.
Should we be equal to what China or Russia spends? > Also a very simple suggestion would be to go back to the Ronald Reagan era > tax rates. Eliminate the Bush era tax cuts. Just eliminating the tax cuts > alone would go a long way to defusing this crisis. That's worth over 6 > trillion a year alone, if you just count the tax cuts for those making over > 250,000 a year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office. > Won't raising taxes in a recession to help maintain a recession or worse? I think your six trillion a year number is off by several trillion. I think when you use Gruss' math you can tax the rich or corps and have a surplus. Other wise it doesn't compute. . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340494 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
