Fiscal responsibility is a family value, too

In the new tradition of Democrats putting their own spin on the GOP themes of family and moral values, Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, told an Overland Park audience this month that he refers to the soaring interest payments on the nation’s current $7.8 trillion debt as “the debt tax.”
“We talk so much in Washington about values, but I think a truer measure of values is not what we say, it’s where we decide we’re going to spend our money,” Moore said, as reported in The Johnson County Sun.
In noting that the debt tops $26,000 per citizen, he quipped, “There will be a basket by the door.”
Strange that many Republicans are comfortable with this unseen burden, opening the door for Democrats to make it a priority.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

One Comment

  1. kelly
    Posted June 21, 2005 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    The cost of servicing the national debt is ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY. Most of the money paying off the interest on the debt is being paid to foreign countries. This is a “baby tax” because our children and grandchildren will have to be the ones who make the difficult decisions to tax and pay, or go bankrupt. Starvation of government – that is really what neocons want.