just have a look at yesterdays budget data and the estimates of earlier than estimated exhaustion of social security/medicare funds.

to think that the us can borrow at this pace forever is naive.

so either public services will have to be drastically or taxes on whatever/whoever will have to go up!

First, Obama doesn’t have any ideas of his own. That was a big criticism Hilary Clinton had when campaigning — she couldn’t attack a non-existent platform. As a congressman, Obama pretty much thought whatever Nancy Pelosi told him to think. Now that he is president, he continues to get a lot of “his” ideas from his handlers in congress.

Second, the plan is being hatched “behind closed doors”. Does that sound like a democracy? Obama is acting exactly like the Bush gang, making decisions that fly in the face of American values and forcing them through without thought or debate.

Obama has his delegates to this mafia don meeting — not that it matters since his opinion is whatever the extremists in Congress tell him it is

“Senior staff members for some Democratic senators at the center of the effort to craft health-care legislation are weighing the idea behind closed doors, Senate aides said.”

Does that sound like the “Obama Administration” to you?

the government should tax all the think tanks, university endowments, religious institutions, and non-profit organizations.

Universities increase tuition by twice the rate of GDP growth, never mind inflation. Plus they pay no property taxes. And they pay no taxes on their endowments. Boston is having major revenue problems because the whole city is owned by Harvard, BC, BU, MIT, etc

The largest land owner in New York City is not Donald Trump. By a huge margin, the Roman Catholic church is the largest real estate investor. Its one thing to make actual churches tax free, but why are commercial properties owned by the church also tax free?

And the biggest growth industry in recent years has been the explosion of so-called non-profit organizations. Every pet cause in the world has several of them. Full time staff draw salaries and benefits plus the CEOs get perks just like their for profit counterparts. The “profits” get split between the staff and the supported cause — but otherwise the only difference is that these groups do not pay taxes. Check out the compensation and perks given by United Way or some of the research hospitals

Half of our society (not counting government itself) does not pay any taxes… that is not sustainable

The problem is that this society never learned how to eat well, we are always on a rush, having breakfast (hi calories bagels and bad coffee and soda) and lunch (microwave food or sandwiches with hi sugar iced tea and soda) at our desks in the office; and then we get home, and have a steak or hot dogs or pizza!

so… why not lower taxes on good wine, and encourage a full one hour lunch, with a decent meal.