Tax Cuts and consistency, circa 2003

Tax Cuts

I saw on CNN today that the average family of 4 with an income in the 40,000 dollar range will receive a tax cut of approximately nine hundred dollars next year. This amounts to 75 dollars a month, or about $2.50 per day. Any extra income is nice, but when compared to the billions and billions of dollars corporations and tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars the individuals and families who are in the top two percent income bracket stand to make from this tax cut, it seems a little inequitable. As one who stands to receive that 900 dollars a year, I am much less inspired than those in the top two percent. What I ask is that the reader consider this:
Regardless of how much you stand to make on the tax cut, if you are a supporter of Bush and his "War on Terror" it is morally inconsistent to support both the tax cut and the war at the same time. For wars cost money, and that money has to come from the government; it can't come about through charity, or private donations, or any of the other ways that are proposed to take the place of the reduced available funds created by a Tax cut. The only other way to fund this war is to continue to take away from other government functions their allocated money, as we have already begun to see by slashes in benefits to the Veterans, reductions in education expenditures, etc. For a man and an administration who claim to be supporting the troops and who claim to be fiscally conservative, this type of spending more while taking in less makes no sense at all, though people familiar with the personal history of our president will recognize a pattern familiar in all of his business ventures prior to entering politics.
It is interesting to me that not only is this the first administration in the history of the US to cut taxes in a time of war, it is the first government in the history of the civilized world to do so. If you truly support the war in Iraq and the war on terror, then you should be willing to put your money where your mouth is and insist that these tax breaks be reversed, and that the tax dollars you would have saved be used to continue paying down the cost of the war, which was grossly underestimated by this administration. This will demonstrate your personal commitment to the wars, and will help, at least minimally, to reduce the now record Federal deficit that has been created out of the Budget surplus this administration inherited.