Reply #69: aren't we all something like $70,000 in debt to the government already...?

[mike_c]

I seem to recall that's the portion of the existing national debt owed by every single American. I might have the numbers wrong-- it's quoted from memory, and I didn't pay much attention at the time.

Still, haven't we already saddled ourselves and our children-- and their children-- with enough scraped skin to last a lifetime?

It's not enough to simply tax the wealthy into a more equitable wealth distribution-- which we MUST do, I think. But government has to be part of the solution, too. We MUST scale back the defense budget and stop being global imperialist bullies. Chop the MIC off at the knees as a first step toward reducing the REAL burden of government on the people.