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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (175237)9/26/2003 2:48:32 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1578944
 
And there is also a constituency for not raising taxes.

Yes, that's supposed to be the GOP.

Not exactly. That's the constituency that the GOP is responsive to. But the constituency is not the same thing as the GOP. In any case I was responding to your argument that cutting spending is difficult with agreement but also by pointing out that raising taxes is difficult. Since they are both hard, the difficulty isn't enough an argument to support one over the other. I would support the spending cuts.

You can't have it both ways and you can't say an expanding economy will pick up the slack when it hasn't done so to date.

It has again and again made up the slack from tax cuts. The problem is that spending has been increasing faster then the economy is growing.

I have already shown you how non defense items that are not mandatory have been cut to benefit defense and mandatory budget items.

Which does not mean that spending on non defense items has not gone up. It has indeed gone up.

"If spending doesn't grow at all and the current growth rate continues then the deficit goes away in a few years."

Right now, the Office of M and B is predicting deficits to 2008 and beyond.

Notice the first part of my sentence starting with "if".

Tim
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