Good morning and welcome to the fifth Carnival of the Magnolias, the carnival of the Southern Blog Federation, a group of bloggers residing in the Southern U.S. The purpose of the carnival is pretty simple:

I do support the fair tax. Neal even aggreed with me that no tax system will fix out of control spending !!!!!!!!!!! Thanks jk

I’ll vote for a Democrat who supports the FairTax over a Republican who doesn’t.

I have a simple solution for Rep. Price: stop complaining about excessive spending and start voting ‘NO’ on outragous spending bills, like the highway and energy bills.

Rep. Price and Congress have been increasing spending by 7.5% per year. The country is $8 trillion in debt and 99% has been borrowed from countries like China and Saudia Arbia over the past two years.

Alan Greenspan warned last Friday that our budget and trade deficites are unsustainable. Rep. Price should be held accounatble for voting ‘for’ these pork bills.

For real solutions and personal accountability, please visit http://www.ControlCongress.com thanks, jk

-Sam

Of course, you get high taxes, a crumbling state infrastructure, an insane cost-of-living, and all the other things that led to my exodus from Cali, but at least you have good things to write about!

Of course. It’s barely a drop in the bucket. But the bucket was bone-dry before, and we can hope that they might actually put more drops in there. As they say, $50B here, $50B there, pretty soon you’re talking real money!

Wow… You’re the first conservative I’ve heard who has actually expressed concern over that same issue.

That’s because I’m not a conservative, I’m a small-l libertarian. I tend to stay away from the LP for pragmatic reasons (I’m not for the all-or-nothing approach). I brought up the Republican/Libertarian coalition because if the Republicans don’t stop spending, I’ll stop voting for them. But I’m all for the government getting out of our lives to the greatest extent possible. And you do that by letting people invest their own money, not by creating a whole new bureaucracy to manage their investments for them.

Give him time… He’ll turn into a statist troll soon enough…

Just like Ron Paul, right?

Wouldn’t that be more accurately called a $50b spending _increase_ cut?

They are still going to raise spending…just by a little less than they wanted to yesterday.

Only in Washington could a spending increase be called a spending cut.

- I think most conservatives prefer the idea of private accounts, but I’ve worried that it would increase the footprint of government on our stock market, and don’t like that idea very much. -

Wow… You’re the first conservative I’ve heard who has actually expressed concern over that same issue. We Libs have been saying it all along, and every Conservative I know dismisses it, and clings to the Bush propaganda that his plan is nothing but roses and will have no bad consequences. Thank you for pointing that out.

- For a first-term Congressman, he seems to have his mind exactly where it should be. -

Give him time… He’ll turn into a statist troll soon enough….