While Doing Your Taxes This year

[lizbud]

While you're doing your taxes, remember:

Should Bush's latest "emergency funding" request pass, Americans will have given about $90,000 to EVERY Iraqi family.

And, for your amusement, here's a ticker giving the running cost of Bush's War of Choice: Compare the costs to your community.


http://nationalpriorities.org/index....per&Itemid=182

[Edwina's Secretary]

I pay alot of taxes. And I have always felt ...regardless of which party was in control...it was my part of the deal...the price of admission to live in a free society that takes care of its own. I have lived elsewhere and understood the value we got for out money.

For the first time I do not feel that way. I feel I live in a less free society...with a more expansive, intrusive government. I feel less safe in the world at large as well as at home.

The federal deficit is huge. Beyond huge. And it was a surplus a few short years ago. It will have to be paid.

I am not naive. All governments have elements of dishonesty, arrogance, incompetence and self-interest.

But this one is bigger, more expensive and spends money on a war that was not supported by facts nor the international community. It cuts taxes for the rich while increasing spending out of the realm of counting. It does not listen...will not hear...any position that differs from its own. Its arrogance or incompetence...I cannot decide which is greater.

So I'll pay my taxes...because that is my obligation...but sadly I feel I am getting a very raw deal.

[columbine]

ES - yeah, the mutineers are at the helm, the rudder's broken, and there's a storm blowing, but hold fast to the ballot box, the newspaper, and library. We'll chase 'em off with bright light (like the crew of the Black Pearl!) and ride this thing out. We've got to. We grew up believing that it's right to tell the truth, and we'll keep telling it. Even if half the crew went drunk and soft a generation ago, the castaways we've picked up along the route can haul on a rope and climb the rigging as well as we ever could, and this ship is still afloat.

Love, Columbine (unabashed Patrick O'Brian fan)

[lizbud]

The sad fact is we are losing much , much more than money. We are
losing American men & woman, sons & daughters & for what good purpose?

Indiana is one of the 4 states that are sending more Indiana National Guard
soldiers back into the fight. The largest callup since WWII.

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6345778

[wombat2u2004]

[QUOTE=lizbud]The sad fact is we are losing much , much more than money. We are
losing American men & woman, sons & daughters & for what good purpose?

Well....for the purpose of fighting terrorism of course !!!!
Wombat

[Pam]

Just had my taxes done on Saturday so this caught my eye. Liz, this is sobering. Those numbers whiz by and sort of remind me of the way the numbers whiz by at the gas tank when I ask to *fill it up.* It's all just too depressing.