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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm fine with my taxes going up if that's what it takes for sensible gun legistlation and people willing to stand up to the NRA, which seems to be imploding, btw. Sandy Hook and our nation's lack of response to it pretty much turned me into a single issue voter, which I was not before.

Fiscally, I don't even have a party. I'm for balanced budgets and paying down the national debt, which apparently is not a thing any more for either party. The two national parties just run up the debt on different things. At least the Dem's things try to help people. The Repubs just want to give tax cuts to rich people. I don't agree with either if we can't afford it, but if we are doing it anyway, I'm with the Dems.[/quote]

When did the national democrats "run up the debt?"[/quote]

Pp here. The federal government operates at a deficit perpetually and no one on either side is earnestly working to rectify this that I am aware of. I’d be happy to be corrected. Every few months we vote to raise the debt ceiling, again. It’s infuriating but no one seems to care. You couldn’t run a household or business this way. We need to live within our means as a nation. I’m fine with revolving debt but that’s not what we are doing.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/24/facts-about-the-national-debt/[/quote]

Oh ok you just don't know. That chart shows decreases during the clinton years, which were wiped out during the bush years, then the financial crisis hit, and we did have some minor decreases after that, but now that's gone too.

As to households, this link shows the debt at slightly over 100% of GDP. My family's debt is something like 150% of our annual income. Most people early into a mortgage will be that way.[/quote]

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