I was shuffling through the newspaper today, saw a short article about McCain and Obama. Guess what? They both have plans to cut taxes.
What’s wrong with these people? When will they learn that cutting taxes is not the answer? Cutting taxes means cutting budgets. Cutting budgets means reducing or eliminating several government programs. And doing that will make many people working with the government lose their jobs. And McCain thinks that cutting taxes will help the economy. (If you don’t happen to live in the US, we’re in a economic slump at the moment.) It doesn’t work. People may not like higher taxes, but its whats best for them.
During the great depression, what did Roosevelt do? He created government projects to give people jobs: dams, parks, etc. And it worked. We managed to get ourselves out of that. But now instead of giving people jobs to start the economy - we have a pretty bad unemployment rate, and 2 million jobs are minimum wage - we cut taxes, no doubt increasing the national debt of 9.5 trillion dollars and getting rid of jobs at the same time
When will one of the candidates understand? Being president is more than just a popularity stunt. You have to help the nation. And lowering taxes is not going to do it.
Being 14, I may not have a vote. But if I did, McCain and Obama just lost it.