[RBatson]

I really don't know where to start.. "The rich pay the most in taxes" I am so sick of hearing that crap! I'm sure they do, they have most of the money. 34% of my wage is taken away before I ever see it! I get back around $2500 so that puts me in the 29% range that I actually pay in. I'll guarantee you the rich don't pay 29%. All I want is for everyone to pay thier fair share. If they were to pay thier fair share.. I wouldn't have to pay so much!! What's $20k to them?? Nothing!! Another thing, I have to pay interest on the money that I borrow from THEM! Credit cards, cars, house.. everything! Why shouldn't they pay thier 29% like what I do? I'd bet there wouldn't be a deficeit if they did.

I remember Mr 5 0 and I debating this back when it was going on and I still don't see where the $300 is stimulating the economy. If you want to get people to spend then all you have to do is make credit card and car interest tax deductible like it was back in the 70s. I'd be hitting the credit card up for everything.. I'd be spending, stimulating the economy. I'd probably even be persuaded to buy a new car. I wonder why they don't?? Well.. Hmm.. the rich wouldn't get a tax cut from that because they would pay cash for anything they got, unless there was a tax break involved. The working class has to finance everything.

As far as the price of oil, we have enought to float us way past the election. Maybe we want to keep our reserve, I understand that but doesn't Kuait have an abundance of oil?? Isn't that why we are in this mess to start with?? Hit Kuwait up!

Its my opinion that we shouldn't have helped Kuwait out in the first place. It was no business of ours. We did, so now we are in it. Iraq signed a treaty that they did not uphold.. NOW we got a problem. Although we shouldn't have helped Kuwait, let them settle it themselves, we have a country not upholding a treaty they agreed to. That is enough basis for force to me. It should have been handled the first time they refused to let the UN inspectors in and I sit and scratched my head wondering why we let it go. Seeing as Bush Sr. saw fit to butt into the region he should have finished it... All of America saw that, it was public opinion that we would have to deal with the crazy Saddam again.

Were we attacked because of our loyalty to Israel or because we let Iraq go on a long leash?? Would we have been attacked if Bush Sr. would have finished the job to start with? From what I heard on the news this morning, alot of countries are pulling out from the war. If we are going to deal with it, I think we should get our men out and deal with it, like we should have to start with.