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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It makes perfect sense why the DCUM boards are filled to the rim with Democrats / Liberals. The DC area is very blue. I guess these people love paying taxes.[/quote]

Well put it a different way.

Most of the red states are "taker" states, meaning that get more from the federal government than the Federal government taxes their residents.
Also, there are more federal employees around the country than there are in DC and the DC region.

I think most blue "maker" state residents, at this point, would be happy to cut off the subsidies to the red states.

The issue is where to draw the line. Pollution from the upper plains flows through the mississippi river to Louisiana. Should Louisiana be responsible for mitigating it all, or should those other states be responsible too? Pollution from factories in Ohio and Pennslyania rained into New England. How did we manage that? There are more farms in the midwest, should we just not bother to ensure the quality of the food grown or the meats raised and processed? What about our ports? Should only the coastal states with ports be responsible for maintaining them, and insuring international standards of ship sizes and the machinery to ship and move the cargo is standardized? How should air traffic control be managed or the purity of pharmcuetical drugs?  How do you coordiante where one road end in one state and other begins in another; or should there not be cross state roads, highways and rail lines?

Where do you want the federal responsibility to stop and the local to start? Certainly with education that is mostly a local issue. Police? Fire? Other law enforcement?

the list goes on. We have a big country with a lot of people. Without a decent central organizing entity - aka government- we would have a lot of chaos and inefficiency.[/quote]

[b]If you think we can go on forever with nosebleed debt levels, you're wrong.[/b]

Other countries are already repudiating the US Dollar and finding workarounds to its reserve currency status. You better wake up, progressives. The Unitd States is NOT immune to the laws of economic and mathematics.

I cited you government figures of a debt of 95K per person and Biden says 'no cuts'. Are you suicidal? Do you think  we can't possibly go down the same path as Venezuela?[/quote]

It isn't the dems who keep exploding the debt and deficit spending. Wake up.[/quote]

Also, the Rs are not proposing to cut any of the drivers of the debt and deficit spending.  They actually want to increase the biggest driver in the discretionary budget, which is defense.  They also want to make the revenue side even worse- they are proposing a new tax cut of $3.5T.  Anyone who thinks the Rs want to solve the debt or deficit is a moron.[/quote]

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