Boss Greer:

Once we gave Washington the feeling that the citizenry could be bled for almost any amount, we removed the necessity for fiscal restraint.

How does that explain, say, the past 16 years? For eight of them, we had higher taxes and decreased spending. We used the increased revenue to pay down our debt. We paid off so much debt that Greenspan was worried about ‘paying it off too fast’ (lolz). The debt was dwindling so fast that the makers of the National Debt Clock turned it off because it was ‘sending the wrong message’. <link>

For the other eight years, we lowered taxes and increased spending. Last week they had to turn the National Debt Clock off to add more digits.

I wouldn’t encourage anyone to pay a nickel more in taxes than they legally owe, but I certainly support tax increases to start to pay down our monstrous debt. And yes, that is patriotic – no taxes, no America.