Biggert is wealthy, why would she support tax cuts that would take a portion of her wealth away ?.You would think that she might suggest putting taxes back where they were at when Clinton was in office, but that is not the Republican way and that is why we are forced to vote for people like Foster.

Tony, are you saying people shouldn't be entitled to keep the money they've earned after they've paid their legal taxes?

Why is it a bad thing for people to be wealthy? I wish I was wealthy! I work hard to try to get weatly!

This country doesn't have a revenue problem (we take in a lot of money), we have a spending problem. The solution is not to raise taxes but to cut our spending on discretionary items.

In the 50's the top tax rate was 91%, we sent millions to college on the GI Bill and otherwise and built thousands of miles of Interstate highway, bridges, dams, etc. And the economy grew like crazy. Now, college is out of reach for most, the bridges are crumbling, but hey, the super-rich have private jets! Is this a great country or what?
John, you believe the rightwing propaganda too much.

http://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0070_Discretionary-Breakdown.aspx

<b>The programs in this category of federal spending, representing 40 percent of the budget for 2012, are some of the most recognizable (other than individual benefit programs), and include national defense, veterans' assistance, the Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, national parks, law enforcement, education, research and development, and investments in physical infrastructure. Defense takes up more than half of the total discretionary spending budget. </b>

Since the parts available to cut ( if you exclude defense) is less than 20% of spending. Which will you cut? Veterans? Education? Infrastructure?

If you think you can solve this by letting the poor starve, you are lying to yourself.

@southeast_side I don't believe the rightwing propanda, i just do my own research.

You know full well the amount of taxes received by the Fed under that 91% tax rate was very little and most used legal means to lower their tax rate. How we "sent millions to college on the GI Bill otherwise and built thousands of miles of Interstate highway, bridges, dams, etc" was based on mostly borrowed money. We can a ton of stuff with borrowed money, just look at what the federal government has accomplished recently, and all with less money coming in from tax revenue.

Politicians moved money from discretionary spending to mandatory spending in order avoid having pet projects and pork cut. The amount of discretionary spending starting coming down in the early 60's and, proportionately, the amount of mandatory spending increased. Discretionary spending has increased over 60% during the last 20 years alone!

Over the past 20 years, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security now make up over 44% of all federal outlays and they've grown substantially greater than the rate of inflation each year. Both parties are to blame for these increases by pandering to voters and indicating they could provide governement services to everyone at little or no cost. It's simply not sustainable.

Biggert gets my vote for opposing same sex marriage!

If a person earned and made their own millions and are very wealthy so what! More poor to them! Drop the dream act and deport all illegals and save billions or a Trillion! It works for me!

Bill Foster supports environmental concerns, which is important to me.