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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Free Lunch"  wrote in message   
   news:1higp852og9tt0ppu8aa4p370077cdbvrs@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 18 May 2013 22:00:24 -0400, "Scout"   
   >  wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>"Free Lunch"  wrote in message   
   >>news:f8afp8trnqnk1gnco20rpnjbqdbhn5i60v@4ax.com...   
   >>> On Sat, 18 May 2013 11:10:06 -0500, RD Sandman   
   >>>  wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >>>   
   >>>>Tom McDonald  wrote in news:imClt.5$7h5.2   
   >>>>@newsfe07.iad:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On 5/17/2013 10:59 PM, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>>>>> Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>>>>>> They were only highest in nominal dollar amounts. Raising taxes on   
   >>>>the   
   >>>>>>> wealthy and raising spending will help the economy grow without   
   >>>>>>> increasing deficits.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Sure.  The wealthy will be just SO incentivized to open new factories   
   >>>>>> with higher taxes punching a bigger hole in the bottom of their boat.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> They don't seem to have been all that incentivized by previous tax   
   >>>>cuts,   
   >>>>> and the economy seems to be doing better with some tax hikes.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>The economy needs both more revenue and less spending.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not at the moment.   
   >>   
   >>So you approve of massive deficit spending then?   
   >>   
   >>And here you were bitching about Reagan.   
   >   
   > Let me repeat: There is no _right_ solution.   
      
   That's not known. What is known is that there certainly are solutions which   
   are less right.   
      
   > Deficit spending depends on   
   > how well the economy is doing.   
      
   True, but one should also allow for bad times when one is figuring their   
   long term budgets.   
      
   After all, what is one of the first pieces of advice give to anyone setting   
   out their budget.   
      
   Savings?   
      
   I think so.   
      
   > Reagan was a perfect Keynsian in the   
   > first few years as he raised spending and cut tax revenue. The problem   
   > was that he refused to raise taxes and cut spending once the recession   
   > was over.   
      
   Ah, so the moment things get the least bit better, that's the time to start   
   dragging down the economy again?   
      
   Meanwhile Obama seems to be doing almost everything wrong to get us out of   
   the recession and the recession ended more in spite of his actions than   
   because of them.   
      
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