They certainly don’t make reasonable Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower anymore…
“Whether we are ready to face the job this minute or any other time, the fact is there must be balanced budgets before we are again on a safe and sound system in our economy. That means, to my mind, that we cannot afford to reduce taxes, reduce income, until we have in sight a program of expenditures that shows that the factors of income and of outgo will be balanced. Now that is just to my mind sheer necessity.”
It’s important to remember that during Eisenhower’s two terms in office, the marginal tax rate for the richest Americans was more than 90%, and while I’m certainly not advocating higher taxes, it seems pretty clear to me that our nation doesn’t have a “high tax” problem – it has a serious revenue problem.
Of course they wouldn’t make reasonable Republicans like that anymore: he’d be labeled a communist fascist who doesn’t know how to run the country.
That being said and a bit off topic – Wis. provision in budget bill would make CU conversions easier. I wonder how those 2.2 million people in our state are going to feel about this?
Eisenhower was labeled a communist in his day, by the Koch brothers daddy’s favorite organization, the John Birch society.
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Fred_C._Koch
Great to have the Koch brothers taking over Wisconsin. I’ve known for a long time that the Packers are just a front for a communist revolt in this state. Go get’em Dave and Charlie!
Actually one thing I found fascinating about Fred Koch is that he used to work under Stalin’s reign. I find it ironic that he became so paranoid with communism and the left that he failed to realize it was authoritarianism where everything went wrong. The removal of rights of citizens and their voice in the process.
Aka: an idea that a leader needs to lead them and the masses are unable to make decisions for themselves – like Leninism and a more extreme case – Stalinism. A lot like what America is today with it’s CEOs and workers.
There wouldn’t be a “revenue problem” (as you see it) if the President wasn’t running up trillion dollar deficits. So if you don’t think there is a high tax problem, there is definitely a SPENDING problem.
There may be a spending problem, but let’s all acknowledge that spending problem started when Republican Ronald Reagan started running up budget deficits during his time in office, and that spending problem continued in a big way under George W. Bush.
I’m glad we can agree on those facts.