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Originally Posted by chizz  There are certain things I really admire about McCain and would like to see in a presidency - first and foremost I'd like to see a president who would actually line-item-veto all earmarks, which he has pledged to do. I loathe earmarks and I can't wait to see them as footnotes in history. In contrast, Bush has done nothing to control the runaway spending under his own party's rule up to 2006. In fact, earmarks and budget deficits were never a real problem to Bush until Democrats took control of Congress, and now it's obviously the fault of the "tax and spend" so-called "liberals" (who I will take any day over the "borrow and spend" so-called "conservatives").
McCain is a true fiscal conservative as far as spending goes, and I admire that a lot. |
I don't see how he could ever contain spending, push the Iraq War, push war with Iran AND cut taxes. How is that gonna work? It didn't under Bush and it won't work under any president. The US government finances continues it's march toward insolvency.
McCain promises to make the President's tax cuts permanent, pledges not to raise any new taxes and said he'd pay for it all with pork barrel spending reform. McCain's approach just won't work. As the Senate Budget Office recently reported, extending the Bush tax cuts and continuing the war is a recipe for a $6 trillion dollar deficit, something McCain can't possibly pay for by reducing $35 billion in earmarks and pork spending.