Mittens betrays Teabaggers, admits spending cuts would throw us into recession

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What benefits do civil servants provide the economy? They don't contribute anything, so firing them will save taxpayers money and increase the number of private sector jobs.

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So raising taxes on people who can't afford to pay more, is going to increase, rather than decrease revenues? The Bush cuts have increased, not decreased revenues.

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Cut domestic spending back to 2000 levels. The way you do that is shrink the size of the government by laying off public sector workers.

Then you pass pension reform forcing public sector workers to pay 50 percent into their pensions (instead of 3 percent), and then you pass a bill eliminating collective bargaining for public sector unions.

Problem solved. You'll see a surplus in a year.

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As opposed to massive, perpetual deficits that will be even more devastating longterm?

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That public sector workers pay only 3 percent of their pensions is ridiculous. 50 percent corrects this massive outflow. It will happen.

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Hah, pensions and pension reform is by far the largest slice of domestic spending. It will happen - we're going broke as it is with the unsustainable largesse they are currently receiving.

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Most of the recipients of the Bush tax cuts are middle class. Raising their taxes is going to reduce, not increase government revenue.

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What percentage of public sector workers are cops, firemen or soldiers? Roughly 20 percent. The other 80 percent are none of these. Making this ratio 50 percent would be far better, which would mean laying off some 4 million public sector workers.

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It's called the Laffer curve.

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Catholic school teacher.

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High deficits followed by tax increases are going to lead to tremendous number of job losses. Getting the fiscal house in order is going to salvage jobs that would otherwise be lost longterm. Short term pain for longterm gain. 

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Speaking as a middle class person, yes, I would prefer cutting unemployment benefits to getting a job on stimulus money.