Needs Repeating

[Sidewinder]

A sequester quote that needs a bit more repeating:

“On the non-defense side, the overall spending level this year is 12 percent higher than when Barack Obama came into office four years ago, so even after the cuts, these agencies will be spending more than they did then, even on an inflation-adjusted basis,” said Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif.

It is the last paragraph in this article. It needs to be a bit more prominent.

[joe bloe]

The government constantly lies to us. So called spending cuts are actually increases in spending. If the government increases spending by ten percent instead of twelve percent, they call it a cut. When Republicans propose growing the welfare state a slower rate of increase, the Democrats say they want to slash spending.

The government calls spending investing. The government calls tax increases revenue increases.

Tax decreases are called tax breaks for the rich. Since the lower half of the country essentially doesn't pay any income tax, it logically follows that any reduction in income taxes has to go to the people that actually pay income taxes, the so called rich. The top ten percent of income earners pay seventy percent of the income taxes and we're told they aren't paying enough.