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<DIV><FONT size=2>I do not think this is a partisan issue: The national
debt must be drastically lowered! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The cost of debt service (interest, etc) is about 13% of the
federal budget and rising. That's 13% that can't be spent on anything else
or used to lower the principle of the debt. By 2020 it is projected to be
account for about 25% of the federal budget. (As an aside ask
yourself: who is profiting from this debt service?)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Common sense says: lower spending, increase
revenue.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Democrats are generally against the first, Republicans, the
latter.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Neither party has the both the guts and the desire to go after
a lot of very unfair tax breaks like those for REITs, mineral depletion,
nonprofit corporations/churches/etc, and many, many others buried in 44,000
pages of the federal tax code.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Kudos to Stockman for helping to point this out. Coming
from a former tax cut Republican, this ought to resonate in both parties.
Keep your day job; don't hold your breath.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm href="mailto:v2020@ssl.fastmail.fm">Saundra
Lund</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=robwaters74@gmail.com
href="mailto:robwaters74@gmail.com">'Rob Waters'</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2010 7:18
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Latah County
Election Summ ary and CandidateComparison</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">Did you happen to
catch 60 Minutes last night? Republican David Stockman, President
Regan’s budget director & the behind the scenes man responsible for the
largest tax cuts in US history, was on, and I found what he had to say quite
interesting:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>One Republican brave enough to
go public is David Stockman, President Reagan's budget director. He says all
the Bush tax cuts should be eliminated - even those on the middle class.
<BR><BR>And he says his own Republican Party has gone too far with its
anti-tax religion. <BR><BR>"Tax cutting is a religion. What do you mean by
that?" correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Stockman. <BR><BR>"Well it's become in
a sense an absolute. Something that can't be questioned, something that's
gospel, something that's sort of embedded into the catechism and so scratch
the average Republican today and he'll say 'Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts,'" he
explained. <BR><BR><B>"It's rank demagoguery," he added. "We should call it
for what it is. If these people were all put into a room on penalty of death
to come up with how much they could cut, they couldn't come up with $50
billion, when the problem is $1.3 trillion. So, to stand before the public and
rub raw this anti-tax sentiment, the Republican Party, as much as it pains me
to say this, should be ashamed of themselves."</B> <BR><BR>These frank words
come from Ronald Reagan's old budget director. Stockman was the architect of
the largest tax cut in American history. <BR><BR>But he doesn't let the
Democrats off the hook. He says he cringes when he hears President Obama say
things like this: "I believe we ought to make the tax cuts for the middle
class permanent." <BR><BR>"We have now got both parties essentially telling a
big lie," he told Stahl. "With a capital 'B' and a capital 'L' to the public:
and that is that we can have all this government, 24 percent of GDP, this huge
entitlement program, all of the bailouts. And yet, we don't have to tax
ourselves and pay our bills. That is delusional."<o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">If
you’re interested, you can read or watch more here:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/60minutes/main6999906.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/60minutes/main6999906.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">OR
(if the link breaks in transmission)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A
href="http://tinyurl.com/2f6fp33">http://tinyurl.com/2f6fp33</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Given
the incredible debt that’s been amassed due to the war-mongering of the
industrial-military complex, I remain quite interested what solutions anti-tax
advocates recommend that don’t throw their fellow Americans under the
bus.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“The
moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life –
the children; those who are in the twilight of life – the aged; and those who
are in the shadows of life – the sick, the needy, and the
handicapped.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">
~ Hubert Horatio Humphrey<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Saundra
Lund<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Moscow,
ID<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">~
Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">*****
Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70
years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside
the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the
author.*****<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Rob Waters<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2010 6:23
PM<BR><B>To:</B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Latah
County Election Summ ary and Candidate Comparison<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Roger,<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Thanks for posting the link to the comparison. Don't follow
the local candidates that closely, but found the fact that every Dem went on
the record for tax increases quite interesting.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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