Go vote.

[G.Irish]

What I don't understand is how everyone expects taxes to be magically lower when we're spent over $200 billion on a war as well as a couple hundred billion on the Dept Homeland Security(which is as wasteful and inefficient as they come). You can't spend more money and make the government larger and expect to pay less taxes unless you cut a lot of other things back. Just from those two costs alone each American's fair share is about $1300.

Where's the federal deficit? Well, it was around $6 trillion at the start of all this and now it's $8.5 trillion. Bottom line is that we have to pay for all of this. Lower taxes would be nice, just like lower car payments would be too. But in both cases we eventually have to pay our debt.

It's just kind of funny to me that polticians can get away with dangling the carrot of lower taxes when we're massively deficit spending. I guess that's the same trick salespeople use to con people into 0/0/0 car notes or interest-only mortgages. Borrow now! Pay...don't worry about paying, borrow now!!!

Either way I don't think either party addresses the real underlying issue which is that the federal government wastes a ton of money either through the incompetence or laziness of it's employees, underperformance and wastefulness of contractors, and pork barrel spending as a result of campaign kickbacks or out and out corruption.

Whether it's 'tax-and-spend' Democrats or 'borrow-and-spend' Republicans you're still getting screwed.