Comments on: Release of Federal Budget 101 guide

By: Medicaid Doctors

Medicaid Doctors — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:34:02 +0000

Excellent! Great article, I already saved it to my favourite,

By: KinKS

KinKS — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:53:24 +0000

Very well articulated. Continuing to tax labor income and employers via the payroll tax is unjust when the employment rate is only 60-70% of US eligible adults. Now add the healthcare issue which is also tied to the labor force through employer-sponsored plans and you see that only working adults are toeing the line for the Federal Budget. It is no wonder so many see incentives to stay out of the work force or become part of the Underground Economy through unreported self-employment. Only when we stop taxing labor and go to a national sales tax will the “tax” system be sort of fair.

By: AS_moderator

AS_moderator — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:21:04 +0000

Hi Joe. Thanks for your comment. The National Town Meeting will indeed be bi-partisan.

We have invited members of Congress from each party to speak at each meeting sites. For example, Congressman Fattah (D) will welcome participants in Philadelphia and Senator Lindsey Graham will welcome participants in Columbia, SC (R). And Erskin Bowles actually will not speak in Philadelphia.

By: Joe Eastman

Joe Eastman — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:26:24 +0000

This has been marketed as a bi-partisan event. Just found out that in Philadelphia former Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and Democratic Congressman Chaka Fattah and Bob Brady will partiicipate. No Republican VIP's are scheduled. So much for bi-partisanship.

By: Don Benson

Don Benson — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:01:28 +0000

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves…. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
—Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

By: JamesRosenbloom

JamesRosenbloom — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:16:02 +0000

A good summary of the current situation. I add that other countires are competing for capital to finance their economies. This will make for higher future interest rates.

By: Lowell5502

Lowell5502 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:13:18 +0000

Your income is your's and not to be taxed. According to the Constitution. If people would read the Constitution they would see that their labor is not to be taxed. All the monies that are collected for income tax (labor tax) is not in complyance to the Constitution. All labor income tax is collected to pay the interest on the money tha the Government barrows from the Federal Reserve Bank. Their is no law that states you must fill a federal tax return. The Congress is not doing it's job and every one of them should be sent home. Because they have not upheld their oath when they took office I believe that all monies and lands that they have taken falsly should be removed from thier possetion, If our leaders cannot be trusted to be hounest in the office we the people have intrusted to them, then they should be held accountabe for thier wrong doings according to the Constitution. WE are a land of laws and those laws should pertain to our Governmental Representatives. LDM

By: E Ganter

E Ganter — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:26:52 +0000

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By: Alicia Dorsey

Alicia Dorsey — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:29:39 +0000

When we talk budget we should also think of residual and sustainable venues, I would hope that community service could be used much like co-ops, bartering is good practice and could save plenty of headaches. We must reinvent our way living and our dependency on monetary systems.

By: Stan Shapiro

Stan Shapiro — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:05:32 +0000

I am not at all convinced that the deficit is the major problem we should be facing at this time. The economy is just digging its way out of a near depression, and without sufficient stimulus, it could collapse. Yet we are being distracted by these supposedly crucial long term concerns. If we got the economy going again, much of the deficit would be eliminated without the need for draconian measures.