re: #24 Max D. Reinhardt

That won’t work. The projected cost of keeping the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers is $830 billion over the next decade. We only give $4 billion in subsidies per year to oil companies. All together that will save us $870 billion over the next decade.

We have a $1.6 trillion deficit this year. Raising taxes and cutting subsidies will not solve the problem.

We may have a 1.6 Trillion deficit but we also have a unemployment rate that’s in the area of 8.9% last time I checked.

I just will not give a f*** about the deficit until its drop at least two full percent.

To put trimming the deficit above reducing unemployment in a economic situation like ours is EXTREMELY wrong headed in my opinion.