Today, however taxes need to be fixed and deep cuts need to be made for say...10 years from now.

I've been linking this quite a bit, but I'm pretty sure you just don't have a grasp how much spending we're doing and how fixing taxes alone cannot possibly be the answer.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/feed-your-family-on-10-billion-a-day.html

I said federal income tax, since we're talking about federal issues.

The lower half has an absurdly high tax rate when you include FICA, State and Municipal taxes. FICA/SS/Medi* also need to be fixed, and as a percentege of income, effect the lower 75% more than than upper.

The fight is just becoming, "FUCK THE RICH", rather than the Tax system is broken, the spending system is broken and they need to be fixed for everyone.

And the lower 25% pay hardly any overall taxes and the lower 50% pay 0 or negative federal income taxes.

The lower 15% are paid not to work, and the middle make enough in wages or handouts to survive having to pay for the generational debt passed to them.

The system is broken on both ends and is pressing on the middle. It needs to be fixed. I don't think you realize how much money is being taken in a year.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/feed-your-family-on-10-billion-a-day.html kind of puts it into perspective.

You obviously don't car about the children.

Apparently you simply don't understand how broke we are and how expensive it is to run the current budget of the government.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/feed-your-family-on-10-billion-a-day.html

There is also a video of the text somewhere, but it puts into perspective how big and expensive the current government is.

Changing the tax code and slashing government is the way to fix it. But congress will never let that happen

Don't ever read your states implied consent laws for a Blood Alcohol test when driving.

Uhm, actually it means you or your employer can stop working, "At will" for any reason not related to Race, Color, religion, national origin, age, sex, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or based on the results of Genetic information.

Alright, southern states can't get out of the debt the US incurred by fight the civil war....got it.

The congress has made a rule that it can't create spending beyond a limit. That's fine, I don't see what the issue is. It doesn't matter if we hit the congressional debt ceiling because this forces the executive branch to pay interest on the debt because the debit itself cannot be questioned and it's the executives job to cut the checks. But per congressional rule, new spending can't happen. It wouldn't mainly mean a total government shutdown doing nothing but paying the debt with current revenue, since congress hasn't passed a budget and can't, per their rules, authorize more spending.

You might be aware of this, but we've been running without a budget for almost 2 years. Continuing resolutions have just been passed, with new spending tacked on. The debt has been entirely a congressional issue with spending going into over driver for the past 12.

First and formost....stop spending. Keep paying the debt until it's back to something reasonable. It's on congress to balance the budget and reduce spending, all the president can do is propose and veto or sign on spending.

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The real question here is, will they be taking the state subsidy off of 87 Octane fuel.......

That isn't the problem.

Being a MediaCom customer I've played with this a few times in the past, complained when the opt out didn't work, and complained about it to people locally. Working for a company that make DPI appliances it was kinda fun to see it in action, but kinda scary to see it on the public internet. CenturyTel also does this exact same thing.

It scans all HTTP traffic looking for 404 errors. So if I go to http://boingboing.net/4in0in4 It will intercept the servers 404 page and redirect to to a mediacom portal site with my 404 URL as the search term and ads all over.

Which part? IIRC they can control interstate commerce and if they enact tariffs, it must be equally applied to all states.

What are you talking about. In 2010 when the budget was supposed to be passed the democrats didn't even submit a budget in to be filibustered. They also had enough majority it would have taken 6 republican vote to overcome a filibuster. Both parties at the time were in favor of keeping the status quo to fight it later....after fall elections.

The filibuster is always bitched about but the party in power never wants to remove the filibuster because in the future when they are the minority they want to use it. Remember a few years ago when the democrats filibusters judicial nominees during Bush, or republicans filibustering gun bans under Clinton. Every time the majority bitches and moans but never changes the rule because they know the pendulum will someday swing the other way and they will want to use the filibuster.

If the media would be less complacent over what a cut is in government baseline budgeting verses absolute dollars I think the narrative would be a lot different for the country. Because even if the republicans came forth with a budget of "No new spending, We will spend the exact same amount this year as we did last year." They would be railed against for cutting 400 billion from the budget because programs have automatic spending increases build into them and the cut that is talked about on TV is not absolute dollars but a reduction in the baseline of the next budget.

It is a systemic/US issue not a democrat or republican issue. Both are unable restrain themselve when it comes to spending.

As for the 2011 budget not being passed...when it was due is September, the democrats had control of the government when it comes to passing laws. Senate, Congress and Whitehouse.........