All I'm Sayin'

This feature that I just made up is called All I'm Sayin'.  Will it be topical and current?  Maybe.  Will it be profound?  Not if you read carefully enough.  Will it be short?  Now you've got it!

So here's all I'm sayin':  I've heard some public personae suggest that repealing the Bush tax cuts--currently a hot debate between the Congress and White House--is actually equivalent to RAISING taxes.  I mean, that IS the money of hard working Americans that "they" want to take!  Well, maybe more like not not take... Well, gee, how do you know when your taxes are going up or down compared to with what you should owe as a citizen?  Oh, wait--yes, you in the back with the highly-pinned vest--you "don't owe them government nuthin'"?  Ohhkaay....let's back up a little.

Putting aside the "question" about tax breaks for millionaires.  And billionaires.  And probably Exxon.  And...well, let's put all that aside--doesn't every citizen owe the government...something?  You know, just a little somethin-somethin for our ability to enjoy steady food, protection, socioeconomic mobility, and South Park?  To paraphrase a t-shirt I saw recently, "we're adults, and we understand the deal."  Please do raise your hand if you don't.  (Not that anything could happen to you, since this is America.)

For our "current" national need to save money, I definitely agree with limits on spending.  All I'm sayin' is that we still need to agree that income taxes are owed, then agree on where the tax owed line should be drawn, and then agree to pay them.