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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "RD Sandman"  wrote in message   
   news:XnsA1C563D3DD7F7hopewell@216.196.121.131...   
   > Free Lunch  wrote in   
   > 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?   
   >>   
   >>>Oh, and that means ACTUAL cuts....not reduction in the increases..   
   >>   
   >> Starting with Defense, right?   
   >>   
   >   
   > We have several thousand troops overseas that could be pulled back, yes.   
   > We don't need to be the policeman of the world.  Let some of those other   
   > countries put more manpower into their own defense. We have projects such   
   > as the F-35, a new tank, etc. that the government wants but the military   
   > doesn't.  Why are we funding those programs?   
      
   Heck,, and updated F16s would do nearly as well as the F-35 and be quite a   
   bit cheaper to do.   
      
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