After watching Grover Norquist again say that no taxes should go up, I wanted to ask him a question. But since I can't ask him, I'll ask the GOP: Where should taxes be?
I understand that no one wants to see their taxes rise, but what is the floor for taxes? Right now, although historic norms for federal taxes raised are 19% of the GDP, we are running at just under 16%, and have been since the Bush tax cuts took effect. Since you say that taxes should never be raised, is this the bottom for you, or should they be lower? Either way, what programs do you believe should be cut? Should education be slashed? Should older people not have health care, therefore dying at an early age, or going to Emergency Rooms, increasing the overall health cost? Should poor people with children not get help with feeding their children, making it harder for those children to get ahead through education, ensuring a never-ending impoverished class of people? Should we stop research and development? Stop public broadcasting on TV and the radio? Cut all this out and you still run over a trillion dollar a year deficit. That's right, the math doesn't add up.
So, GOP, where should taxes be set at? And if you want to balance the budget, where else do you cut?
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