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<blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 905766" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>It is not just spending. It is what and who is taxed and at what rate. We had low deficits and high spending in the 40s, 50s and 60s but he had high tax rates on the wealthy ( 70-90%) during that time also. "Limited " government does not mean low tax rates. To me limited govt means less intrusion on ones personal life: abortion, marriage equality, drugs, etc. I doesnt mean safety rules and regulations should be left to any free market!! ANy decent govt should regulate how food is grown and sold; how products like childrens toys are made; how much polution factories can spew, etc.</p><p></p><p>Remember up until 2001, our govt was projected to pay down the national debt by 2015. That meant keeping the highest tax rate at 39.6% (which bush and the repubs did not do); it meant paying for all expenditures like wars (which bush and the repubs did not do); it meant paying for prescription drugs program (which again bush and co didnt do). People like grover norquist want govt shrunk to the point where it can be "drowned in a bathtub"!! Govt so weak that it cannot stand up to huge corporations and protect us from their wrath!! </p><p></p><p>Government is NOT the problem. Government controlled by a rapacious oligarchy is!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="804brown, post: 905766, member: 29553"] It is not just spending. It is what and who is taxed and at what rate. We had low deficits and high spending in the 40s, 50s and 60s but he had high tax rates on the wealthy ( 70-90%) during that time also. "Limited " government does not mean low tax rates. To me limited govt means less intrusion on ones personal life: abortion, marriage equality, drugs, etc. I doesnt mean safety rules and regulations should be left to any free market!! ANy decent govt should regulate how food is grown and sold; how products like childrens toys are made; how much polution factories can spew, etc. Remember up until 2001, our govt was projected to pay down the national debt by 2015. That meant keeping the highest tax rate at 39.6% (which bush and the repubs did not do); it meant paying for all expenditures like wars (which bush and the repubs did not do); it meant paying for prescription drugs program (which again bush and co didnt do). People like grover norquist want govt shrunk to the point where it can be "drowned in a bathtub"!! Govt so weak that it cannot stand up to huge corporations and protect us from their wrath!! Government is NOT the problem. Government controlled by a rapacious oligarchy is!! [/QUOTE]
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