<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-18T12:03:57+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59039/1/" /><id>59039</id><summary><![CDATA[McCain: Cutting taxes more important than balanced budget]]></summary><issued>2008-04-20T18:45:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-20T18:45:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Republican John McCain said Sunday that cutting taxes and stimulating the economy are more important than balancing the budget, and accused both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama of supporting tax hikes that would worsen the impact of a recession.]]></content></entry><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/politics/l/59039/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (3)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/politics/l/59039-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/politics/l/59039-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/politics/l/59039-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/politics/l/59039/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><entry><title><![CDATA[1thirteen3 @ 4/21/2008 12:02:47 AM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59039/1/atom0_3.rss#q4" /><id>243229</id><summary><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/59039/1/#q3"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>belvario</b> : Clearly you don't have children (or grandchildren) who are getting stuck with the bill.</i></div>I'm only 20 myself (as of yesterday)....]]></summary><issued>2008-04-21T00:02:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-21T00:02:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/59039/1/#q3"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>belvario</b> : Clearly you don't have children (or grandchildren) who are getting stuck with the bill.</i></div>I'm only 20 myself (as of yesterday).<br/><br/>The point I was making was that YES, a balanced budget is important, it ABSOLUTELY is.<br/><br/>However, when you have a problem, there are two ways to solve it.  The first is with more government and spending, the second is with less government and spending.  The choice with less government and spending is ALWAYS the better choice.<br/><br/>That being said, the way to balance the budget that would be good is to cut spending.  The bad way to balance the budget is to raise taxes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[belvario @ 4/20/2008 10:21:45 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59039/1/atom0_3.rss#q3" /><id>243165</id><summary><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/59039/1/#q2"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>1thirteen3</b>&#160;:&#160;Yes, tax cuts are important, but not at the sake of balancing a budget.<br/><br/>What I mean by that is that a balanced bu...]]></summary><issued>2008-04-20T22:21:45+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-20T22:21:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/59039/1/#q2"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>1thirteen3</b>&#160;:&#160;Yes, tax cuts are important, but not at the sake of balancing a budget.<br/><br/>What I mean by that is that a balanced budget is very important, and that if we DO have tax cuts (like i whole heartedly support) we need to lower spending.<br/><br/>Tax cuts are MORE important than balancing the budget at the cost of more taxes.</i></div>Clearly you don't have children (or grandchildren) who are getting stuck with the bill.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[1thirteen3 @ 4/20/2008 7:49:58 PM]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59039/1/atom0_3.rss#q2" /><id>243083</id><summary><![CDATA[Yes, tax cuts are important, but not at the sake of balancing a budget.<br/><br/>What I mean by that is that a balanced budget is very important, and that if we DO have tax cuts (like i whole heartedly support) we need to lower spending.<br/><br/>Tax cuts ...]]></summary><issued>2008-04-20T19:49:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-20T19:49:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yes, tax cuts are important, but not at the sake of balancing a budget.<br/><br/>What I mean by that is that a balanced budget is very important, and that if we DO have tax cuts (like i whole heartedly support) we need to lower spending.<br/><br/>Tax cuts are MORE important than balancing the budget at the cost of more taxes.]]></content></entry></feed>