Comments on: Don’t Cut Spending – Raise Taxes? http://christopherhedges.com/2008/02/04/dont-cut-spending-raise-taxes/ Attorney serving Northwest Indiana's legal needs Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Chris http://christopherhedges.com/2008/02/04/dont-cut-spending-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-612 Chris Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:27:11 +0000 http://christopherhedges.com/2008/02/04/dont-cut-spending-raise-taxes/#comment-612 Hi Buzz, The scary thing is that when the guys were stealing money wholesale during the sidewalks for votes scandal, they took <a href="http://nwitimes.com/articles/2004/10/01/news/top_news/049344fbbb2f1b5186256f20000807c3.txt" rel="nofollow">$20 million</a> or so and nobody noticed. It is only when there are suggestions that government units tighten the belts, consolidate, and stop paying too much to cronies and friends for goods and services that suddenly not getting $20 million or so is a crisis. Why do East Chicago, Gary or other Lake Co. cities need their own library system when there's a great one at the county level? Why does East Chicago have to run buses for free? There are a lot of places where cuts could be made without impacting the ability for first responders to get to an incident scene. When the money is being stolen in the millions, nobody feels a pinch. It is only when that money isn't being converted into political power that the howls of budget cuts killing people are heard. Hi Buzz,

The scary thing is that when the guys were stealing money wholesale during the sidewalks for votes scandal, they took $20 million or so and nobody noticed.

It is only when there are suggestions that government units tighten the belts, consolidate, and stop paying too much to cronies and friends for goods and services that suddenly not getting $20 million or so is a crisis.

Why do East Chicago, Gary or other Lake Co. cities need their own library system when there’s a great one at the county level?

Why does East Chicago have to run buses for free?

There are a lot of places where cuts could be made without impacting the ability for first responders to get to an incident scene.

When the money is being stolen in the millions, nobody feels a pinch. It is only when that money isn’t being converted into political power that the howls of budget cuts killing people are heard.

]]> By: Buzzcut http://christopherhedges.com/2008/02/04/dont-cut-spending-raise-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Buzzcut Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:40:03 +0000 http://christopherhedges.com/2008/02/04/dont-cut-spending-raise-taxes/#comment-610 Yeah, I was scratching my head after reading that column. Why must government lovers like her resort to the "what do you want to cut first, police or firemen?" tactic? Why can't we cut EVERYTHING ELSE before we get to police and fire service? My property taxes are already in the 5 figures, before the 2% cap. My Indiana income taxes are 4 figures. How much more blood should I be expected to bleed so that Van Til and his corhort can have take home cars and free gas? Yeah, I was scratching my head after reading that column.

Why must government lovers like her resort to the “what do you want to cut first, police or firemen?” tactic? Why can’t we cut EVERYTHING ELSE before we get to police and fire service?

My property taxes are already in the 5 figures, before the 2% cap. My Indiana income taxes are 4 figures. How much more blood should I be expected to bleed so that Van Til and his corhort can have take home cars and free gas?

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