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• Wednesday, June 4, 2008 08:17 AM

  red_gti20000

  Taxes should be used for current expenses only! Full stop! Government-sponsored Social Welfare projects should be kept separate, with separate funding programs!

  -- red_gti20000

  In other words, you're supporting John McCain because he supports your ideas about government, not because you hate Obama. Truthfully, I would rather spend my tax dollars on (call it social welfare projects) education and helping the disabled and children with healthcare than three trillion dollars and counting for a war in Iraq. You do know that wars cost more AFTER they are over than while we are paying for them? (Disability costs for soldiers can extend over a lifetime...) So the longer we delay ending what is already one of America's longest wars (four more years=how many more dollars? deaths? disabilities?), the more you and I will pay in tax dollars, I don't care what tax bracket we are in.

  sheesh. Why do people still believe Republicans when they talk about lower government spending when we've watched the current administration put the whole country in the hole...do Republicans only belief in the social welfare of Iraq (if you want to call it that--which actually I don't) and not of our own country? I don't get it, honestly I don't. (And I think that the fact that we don't invest enough money in education is going to contribute to more economic problems ahead...you can count on it!)

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