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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SeekingFreedom: [QB] Three issues.... [i]I have doubts about some of them, but at least Cameron cared enough about reducing his country's deficit that alongside the cuts, he also proposed an increase in the value-added tax from 17.5% to 20%. Imagine: a fiscal conservative who really is a fiscal conservative. [/i] Can you imagine a 20% VAT here in the U.S.? The 'poor' would be rioting... [i]But this is not actually an argument against the stimulus. On the contrary, studies showing that the stimulus created or saved up to 3 million jobs are very hard to refute.[/i] Horsesh!t, they haven't been able to prove anywhere NEAR that number... [i]Then there's the very structure of our government. Does any other democracy have a powerful legislative branch as undemocratic as the U.S. Senate? When our republic was created, the population ratio between the largest and smallest state was 13-to-1. Now, it's 68-to-1. Because of the abuse of the filibuster, 41 senators representing less than 11% of the nation's population can, in principle, block action supported by 59 senators representing more than 89% of our population. And you wonder why it's so hard to get anything done in Washington? [/i] The Senate was created that way ON PURPOSE. To prevent the mob rule that a Legislative Branch based on House of Reps concept. The smaller states wouldn't have accepted anything that didn't give them equal voting rights. That's why the dual system was created. Idiot.... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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