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To: TimF who wrote (357268)	11/6/2007 7:58:16 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) of 1573909

You are obscuring the point. SS is a dedicated program with a dedicated line item tax. It used to be outside of the federal budget until they passed the 'unified budget'; it should still be outside the budget because the unified budget obscures reality. But that does change the fact that SS hs an income, and an outflow. And at this point in time that helps disguise other spending, including the wars. On the other side the wars are clearly 'discretionary spending', and as such a clear part of the budget. They go straight to the bottom line, which is of course negative. If the wars had a dedicated tax, I wouldn't be able to argue about it's effect on the deficit. And you can't argue about SS effect on the deficit, since it is decreasing it. <Of course the other point is that every week everyone that gets a paycheck sees a line item for the cost of SS. Nobody sees the cost of the wars... because it's all debt with interest. Which is better from the 'libertarian point of view'?> As Ten would say, the rest is your partisan nuance.

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