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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Free Lunch"  wrote in message   
   news:tjigp8levs6qu56rqpcf4p0jnldilhac9g@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 18 May 2013 21:59:47 -0400, "Scout"   
   >  wrote in alt.atheism:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>"RD Sandman"  wrote in message   
   >>news:XnsA1C45D68841CChopewell@216.196.121.131...   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>Yep, and we need to cut spending before and faster than we add revenue.   
   >   
   > Why?   
      
   So we can generate a surplus to pay off the debt incurred.   
      
   I mean you do want to be able to engage in deficit spending again when the   
   next recession comes along, right?   
      
      
   >>Oh, and that means ACTUAL cuts....not reduction in the increases..   
   >   
   > Starting with Defense, right?   
      
   Absolutely.   
      
   Followed immediately by cuts in social services.   
      
   In fact, I don't think it's too much to demand a 10% cut across the board on   
   EVERYTHING, and then start looking at specific cuts that can be added to   
   that.   
      
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