Bias, when you say "taxes", you almost say it gleefully - let me ask you a few questions to rub that "tax and spend" smirk off your face... First, when YOU say raise taxes, I'm going to assume you are talking about corporate and not middle income taxes. With that assumption, don't you realize when you raise corporate taxes you are really raising costs to the consumers (customers) of those corporations? Corporations are not going to allow their profit margins to shrink if their taxes are raised! Therefore, they always pass along the expense to the consumer, so hence your CORPORATE tax rate increase really is a killer cost HIKE to the consumer (middle and lower income people) - How does that help us? Secondly, you say we are spending trillions of dollars we don't have on the war (which is absolutely correct). What makes you think that we can shift that spending to alternative energy/Infrastructure when WE STILL DON'T HAVE that money to begin with? So you're saying that massive deficit spending is OK if they have "good intentions" with the money? Where is the logic in that? And thirdly, assuming that we do redistribute those trillions in war funds to infrastructure/alternate energy resources here at home - doesn't that just mean we give what you liberals like to call "corporate welfare" (subsidies) to multi-national energy corporations? Aren't they the ones in control of developing these "green" technologies? This sounds a lot like robbing Peter to pay Paul - and it seems to me that Liberals rationalize this thinking because their "intentions" are more noble or of better quality than the Conservatives. Sounds and looks to me that its the same old game with the same old results its just the Liberals friends and partners benefitting from our tax dollars rather than the Conservatives - How is that CHANGE in any way? I appreciate your answer to these questions! :)

by bobo1 on 07/15/2008 06:26:12 PM EST

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