"How, oh how, shall we pay for Hurricane reconstruction"? *wring hands*

[WilliamPitt]

Um...

Repeal those goddam stupid tax cuts.

We clearly cannot afford them.

(/talking point)

[LynzM]

1. Will Pitt, I am surprised

A spelling error. From you. The shame ;)

Yeah, really. Repeal the tax cuts, bring the troops home, etc., etc.

[WilliamPitt]

2. I fixed it, dammit

:P

[CottonBear]

3. Repeal the tax cuts AND raise the tax rates for the wealthiest Americans.

Also, NO estate tax repeal.

[Jawja]

4. Agreed.

When the SECOND Cat. 4 or 5 hurricane slams into the Gulf within a 3 week period, it's time to call in the tax breaks and call home the troops.

These should be the talking points of every Dem that can get in front of a camera and/or microphone.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Make it loud and clear that the richest 1% of Americans could chip in

You know, Bush's Base.

Let them show a sign, any sign, of humanity.

[KittyWampus]

6. Special One Time Only Tax Where CEO's Making 1 Million Fork The Rest

over this year.

[Jacobin]

7. They'll just print more money

I pity the person who gets elected president in 2008, because interest rates will go up with the giant cumulative deficits, and that will slow down the economy and take years to work our way out of.

Econ 101.

[Kazak]

8. Uh, the defense budget is pretty healthy too...

Hmmmm, I have no idea how their gonna pay for it... :shrug:

[tridim]

9. I like the legalization and taxation of marijuana idea

They could even grow the crop in LA.

Not only would it fund the reconstruction and help to calm tense Americans, it would also be the beginning of the end of the war on drugs.

[AirmensMom]

10. Make the prez and all his buddies "work" for free.

It's hard work being prez, you know. But when you mess things up so badly, you should give up your pay.

[BlueEyedSon]

15. Give up your pay? How about giving up your JOB?????

[shraby]

11. And bring the troops home from Iraq.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Esp if we get walloped a second time

[me b zola]

13. The WH press conference this morning:

Snotty was pretty much spelling out that they would continue their push to repeal the estate tax, they would continue with the huge tax cuts for the wealthy, and they would find "other programs" to cut.

This, of course, directly contradicts bush*s prime-time speech from NOLA where he tried to sound as though he gave a damn about poverty.

[Pithy Cherub]

14. "Hurricane" Iraq has available funds, if we would audit

where the Hell they are spending that money.

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. The economy will "stall" or go into a "tail spin" without the tax cuts!

We would be in a post 9/11 economic depression without them according to jr. I'll bet they use the hurricanes as a reason why we need to expand the cuts.

[stellanoir]

17. Eliminate the funding for

that idiotic 250 million dollar bridge in Alaska that will lead to no where. Demand that anyone with more than a million in assets, especially the over paid CEO's and politicians and lobbyists forgo their salaries for a year, repeal the tax break for the oil companies, audit the hell out of Halliburton & Bechtel, fire the damned mercenaries in Iraq and NOLO, and yeah repeal the lousy tax cuts for anyone who makes more than 80 grand or so.

Yeah I'm sure all of this is likely.

/sarcasm

[Zodiak]

18. Have you seen the projected budget?

There is nothing left. Every sngle program for the direct general welfare of the people is projected to be cut,except, of course, defense spending.

The money can only come from debt, or the government is going to have to cut into the bone of the American people in the here and now (rather than defer it to the future).

We spend toomuch on defense,and alot of thatmoney is notspent on the troops. We should place a moratorium on weapons development (other than emergent, purely defensive needs). No more big government contracts to the big military contractors. However, NO cuts are allowed for personnel. We need to get off of this corporate welfare through defense spending.

Of course, cut the taxes for the rich. In fact, I am a strong proponent of salary caps. No CEO is allowed to make more than 20 times what the janitor makes. All personal liquid assets that exceed 100 million dollars are taxed 100% for wealth redistribution. Enough of the rich using their money to equal votes and getting richer and richer and richer. We need to rebuild the middle class because our domestic market will eventualy collapse without them. All of these things I know are unrealistic, but I sincerely think this is what we need. If we do not achieve some kind of wealth redistribution soon, we will eventually have civil unrest.

We also need to properly tax our corporations. I don't want any stories of major companies that pay a few thousand bucks every year for their taxes. They reap the benefits of this market and they trade on our stock exchange. You want to play, you got to pay.

We need to end this war in Iraq....NOW! There is no reason to stay. Our presence there has fomented a civil war that we cannot stop, and no amount of poking guns in people's faces will change that. As it is, we lose money and soldiers in this venture, and we are presently installing a government that at best will be under Islamic law and allied with Iran and at worst will collapse and be replaced by a hostile regime of Baathists or terrorists....or the new creation...Baathist terrorists. We screwed it up, and our money and blood is going down the shithole with no end in sight. Someone needs to stand up to the "stay the course" crowd and make them prove that we can have any effect on stability there. Our soldiers' lives and now the future welfare of our people are at stake.

Lastly, we need to move to alternative fuels because our energy infrastructure is in hurricane alley, we can't afford imperialistic wars over oil, and our environment has become an oven set to "force 5" temperature for the gulf, if you know what I mean.