What the USA can not afford is waiting for the lie that the super rich millionaires and super profitable large corporations paying little or lower rate or no taxes are making more jobs!
What Congress has know for decades since the 1970s is that we can no longer expect a healthy economy if the rich corporations are allowed to steal and lie about it while taking most of our pensions and retirement plans, ala United, IBM, GE, etc. It is well documented in the book i am now reading by Ellen E. Schultz "Retirement Heist". How in any conscience could any Congress-person since the 1970s silently allow such massive fraud and theft in the $Bs or $Ts now , just to make the super-rich corporations and executive individuals richer while hurting the vast majority of the American taxpayers and voters and legal citizens?! Shame, for shame !!
The top 2% or 10% or even 20% being lower percentage taxed does not make a stable robust competitive safe economy.
But that is the unreasonable shouted minority-party arch conservative Republican platform now. The losers. Sore losers, ready to crash the economy and the Nation.
What we can not afford is the 50-80$B in annual tax breaks to the oil industry, that has no pump price competition and rather owns oil producing states like Alaska and California, and probably soon the Dakotas.
What we can not and have not for decades been able to afford is a too complex and too unfair national tax code. When will Congress ever get the strong spine again to tackle such tough national problems?
What we can no longer afford is $Ms in farm subsidies to already Millionaire farmers!
What we can no longer afford is a runaway and secretly extravagant military budget.
What we can no longer afford are these huge over-charging for medical care policies, resulting in very excessive profits for the medical insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
What we can no longer afford is double dipping in retirement by fraudulent civil servants being allowed to claim disability pension in addition to regular pension, when they hardly worked an good value efficient day in their entire public employee careers and are not truly on the job injured, but just old.
What we can not afford is all the OMB waste well documented every year.
What we can not afford as a Nation is the obstructionist and terrorist conservatives as a minority bent on destroying the USA if they can't be voted into power and majority ever again.
What we can not afford is to believe their half blind, right eye only view of things American. Those weak lies won't fly anymore. Amen!
