{"id":20805,"date":"2013-10-24T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T01:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20805"},"modified":"2013-10-24T21:14:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T01:14:55","slug":"what-we-have-here-is-a-failure-to-communicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20805","title":{"rendered":"What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Weekly Standard<\/a> reported today on a recent quote by Harry Reid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Senate majority leader<\/a> Harry Reid says that “Everybody” is “willing to pay more” taxes. He said so in an interview with a Nevada Public Radio<\/a> host.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe only people who feel there shouldn\u2019t be more coming in to the federal government from the rich people are the Republicans in the Congress<\/a>,\u201d Reid told the radio host, according to Roll Call<\/a>. \u201cEverybody else<\/a>, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow. I am not a rich person, but I am part of everybody else, and I have no desire to pay any more taxes than I already pay. Nor do I think anyone, rich or poor should have to pay more taxes until the government learns to spend money more carefully.<\/p>\n

Traditionally in America government spending<\/a> has been about 18 percent of the GDP<\/a> in taxes. The Obama Administration<\/a> has increased the amount of spending drastically.<\/p>\n

Heritage.org<\/a> posted the following chart:<\/p>\n

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The reason for the drop in spending in 2012 is the budget control act. Even if you don’t like sequestration, it is becoming obvious that it does cut government spending.<\/p>\n

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