TOO much Government?

[krystal]

Oh, also, usually breaking out a random "blah, blah, blah" isn't the best way to be taken seriously in a discussion/debate.

I didn't want to say "So on, so forth."

Another thing to consider is whether we are more worried about national debt vs. consumer debt. If you cut taxes, it helps the people, but puts less back into the deficit. If you raise taxes, money we aren't able to spend goes... supposedly towards the deficit. Some people get most of what they pay into (federal) taxes back the next year. Some people have to pay more, another thing to consider.

I'm not a total socialist, but I do believe I am socialistic enough to be disliked in here (I hope this isn't like high school)... but there is one thing I have to say to make everyone hate me... just a little bit more. Because a lot of people talk about smaller wanting a smaller government, we could always just back, say a hundred and fifty years or so to a time when there wasn't government funded public school for you to send your children, or government funded police and fire departments. That should be fun.

I'm done being a jerk now (but I make no promises).

Oh, it also bothers me that our money isn't back by anything. I know it helps (for good and for bad) to be able to print money, but the idea that our economic worth is based on computer numbers and potentially worthless paper doesn't fill me with the warm and fuzzies. Maybe it's just me, though.