In terms of taxes, what would would it take to close the current deficit?

One estimate:

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/a-952.html

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Or we could end the bailouts and foreign occupations.



Potato - puhtahto.

You rang? I personally dont have the funds to bailout the US Gov. Sorry.

No prob! We can just expand the money supply, and steal the value of whatever money you DO have to create more money, which can be used to pay for more big government and more wars and more global empire. And we can keep on doing this forever and ever and ever and nothing bad can ever happen as a result. Just ask that brilliant "free market" economist Alan Greenspan. He'll tell you all about how our current crisis is a result of the failure of "the free market", and totally not at all related to the actions of the Fed that have obliterated the value of the dollar, and how all we need to keep doing what we've been doing in order to achieve different results. The definition of sanity, after all, is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results every time. :thumb:

The methods and purpose of the Fed are so thoroughly logical, rational, legal, defensible, and totally flawless that they must be kept absolutely secret from the American public at all costs. Because if there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that the best people to trust with your money are the people who are most desperate to keep you from knowing what they're doing with it.