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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (303894)9/23/2006 1:47:14 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1573851
 
Taxing the money does hurt the economy, as does borrowing it, at least when you are just talking about the direct effects. Indirectly infrastructure like roads is needed, and while a lot of the spending is pork, some of it is important. Defense can be considered mostly a dead weight on the economy, but obviously some level of defense spending is necessary.

How fast do you think intra and international trade would dry up in gov't did not spend for airports, shipping ports, highways etc. and continue spending for their ongoing maintenance? Your corporations would be dead in their tracks within months.
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