Bush has to rescind the upper-class tax cuts

[Zuni]

while I think tax breaks for small businesses in the Gulf Area are a good idea to give a massive boost to hiring and allow the propreiters to rebuild damaged stores and stocks, overall there is no way to possibly pay for Katrina recovery and to repair the devestation that Rita is likely to cause without a tax hike.

The Feds also have to edit serious pork out of the budget, including the giant pork boondoggle highway bill and other completely pork driven projects. The defense budget has to be trimmed (it is the most wasteful part of the whole federal government according to the GAO).

Congress needs to only spend on nessecities for now. No more pet projects. And the IRS needs to aggressively take out tax shelters and collect back taxes from huge conglomerates who haven't been paying even the small amounts they owe. Loopholes that allow for the wealthiest to get away with paying only a small fraction of their share will have to be closed.

we are closing in on the debt ceiling limit of 8 trillion $. There is no choice other than this for Bush---

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. But he is not known for reversing course.. so how will we get him to do it

[Zuni]

2. by letting the government know we do not want 8 trillion in debt

for the next generations

we pay billions and billions every year in just interest alone

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. How many people in the gov't even care what we think? Not many

The only way they will hear us is if it hurts them somehow.

[charlie]

4. Yup

Plus, his Daddy did it and look where it got him. Dubya would sooner give up both kidneys than invite comparisons to his pop.

[triguy46]

5. Oh no he won't....

He will use all this as an excuse for even MORE tax cuts. You must enter the bizarro world to understand bizarro logic.

[maine_raptor]

6. NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To paraphrase the NRA;

"You have to pry the Tax Cuts from his cold, dead hands."

[Brother Buzz]

7. On another vein....

It will be interesting to see how congress reacts in January when Bush requests still another 80 Billion bucks for that Iraq hell hole project.

[Toots]

8. Yaa Right!!!!!

What planet are you living on? :shrug;

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Not in this lifetime. They will do away with Social Security, Medicare,

Medicaid, Headstart, and anything else that helps the poor, BEFORE he ever rescinds his idiotic tax cut for his rich cronies. That's will never, ever happen.

[kentuck]

10. The Democrats need to say that now ...

So when they get in, the people know what they voted for. But Democrats are a very cautious Party. They prefer to win without having to take a stand.