Quote from mark2:
Please give a good proposal to pay off our national debt before saying no tax hike. You know who are the real owner of our country now? Simply cutting congress salary will not save our country.
REDUCE GOVERNMENTAL SPENDING????
It's very simple actually. Radical entitlement spending reform will do it.
By the way, the budget deficit, is minor in comparison to the unfunded entitlement obligations that our country will face in the coming years.
Obama has proposed more spending increases than what would be covered by his proposed tax increases, so please don't think that he is the answer to our debt issues.
With that said, this is where Bush failed the most in my opinion. He spent like a liberal democrat.
Most people wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with some small tax increases if they had any confidence that the government would use the extra money to pay down debt, but I think we all know that won't happen.