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Originally posted by marg6043
I have to say that is imperative that states get the help they are asking for.
But why they waited this long to be in such need, why they didn't ask Bush for some bail out money then.
Originally posted by marg6043
I have to say that is imperative that states get the help they are asking for.
Originally posted by grover
reply to post by marg6043
If states start failing because of a drop in tax revenues... which is what's fueling it... it will ripple across the economy and have a far more devastating than any of the banks going under.
Originally posted by Keyhole
Originally posted by marg6043
I have to say that is imperative that states get the help they are asking for.
Agree with you 100% marg!
If the states start going bankrupt, there will be no money for:
(of course these may differ state to state)
No state police
No DOT - no fixing roads, bridges, traffic lights
No child health services
No Bureau of Health Quality Management
No State Parks
No Department of Business and Professional Regulation
No State Universities
No Wildlife Enforcement
No state Department of Environmental Protection
No Department of Motor vehicles (DMV)
No Division of Hotels and Restaurants
No Business & Professional Regulation - no new business licenses
No state court systems
And many, many more things we take for granted that the state provides for us and these probably aren't even be the best examples!
Yeah, we don't need to let any state go bankrupt in my book
Originally posted by grover
The no taxes at any cost crowd simply have no clue as to what their taxes buy... they seem to think that state and federal governments can function just fine without them... its that or they just don't care.
Both are equally disturbing.
Originally posted by ConservativeJack
we wouldn't cut those programs LOL
we would REDUCE them and make them RUN more EFFICIENTLY.
you just propose we give them more money
you are a drunk sailor with other peoples money
what about your money? go donate half your pay check to the state park office, because we need to help these park rangers driving around in 100,000 state of the art, tax payer Ford Explorers with leather seats...
you dont live in the real world
if you did, you wouldn't just give these loser an open check book.
Originally posted by Keyhole
reply to post by ConservativeJack
Strange how this is just about the first time that I can remember that states are saying that they are going bankrupt, hmmm, could it be the economy and NOT the way they are actually spending the money?
Hmmm, could it be that the unforeseen rise in gas prices, the economy (less sales tax revenue), and the rise in price of a lot of other things they had to buy ended up digging deeper into the states budgets foreseen?
After all, who thought things would be getting THIS bad!
Hmmm! (rubs chin)
After all, you don't hear of states going bankrupt (maybe except Calif.) like this every year! Usually they handle their budget very well!
[edit on 12/2/2008 by Keyhole]
Originally posted by grover
Originally posted by ConservativeJack
we wouldn't cut those programs LOL
we would REDUCE them and make them RUN more EFFICIENTLY.
you just propose we give them more money
you are a drunk sailor with other peoples money
what about your money? go donate half your pay check to the state park office, because we need to help these park rangers driving around in 100,000 state of the art, tax payer Ford Explorers with leather seats...
you dont live in the real world
if you did, you wouldn't just give these loser an open check book.
You haven't even inquired what my attitude about taxes is... you are simply making assumptions and throwing around an attitude.
I will give you a metaphor from real life... I managed a kitchen in a restaurant whose owner was a tightwad big time... he kept our budget so tight that we had no wiggle room, no room to try new things and eventually no customers... he pinched pennies to the point that we could only function and that was it and so went out of business.
Are there excesses yes of course there are but at the same time a business or a government needs room (both financial and actual) or it simply cannot do its job.
Case in point here in Virginia the Dept. of Transportation's budget has been cut so tight that if we have a rougher than normal winter... either the roads don't get salted, or they get salted but later don't get maintained.
Originally posted by ConservativeJack
you called me a no tax guy, which was an assumption. i said you think taxes are too low by default because your position is the government needs more money than it has now. a way to get the government money is taxes. so your position, I assumed base off of your post, was a hike in taxes.
not every road should get salted man. salt the essential roads. you have to be productive if you work on tax-payer dime. I don't want understand how your roads wouldn't be getting paved or salted. You should phone your local County office. but would you really expect them to hire another truck driver just to get a few extra roads? that's a waste of money, the roads will naturally heat up and melt in a day or 2.
[edit on 2-12-2008 by ConservativeJack]
we wouldn't cut those programs LOL we would REDUCE them and make them RUN more EFFICIENTLY. you just propose we give them more money you are a drunk sailor with other peoples money
what about your money? go donate half your pay check to the state park office, because we need to help these park rangers driving around in 100,000 state of the art, tax payer Ford Explorers with leather seats ... you dont live in the real world if you did, you wouldn't just give these loser an open check book.
The plan contains a 4.8 percent increase in defense spending and a 1.2 percent increase in spending for homeland security.