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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (65927)5/4/2008 3:23:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Your own definition shows that you are wrong. Planned future expenses are not something you owe or an obligation to pay.

ANY argument that advances my case is irrelevant, it seems.

Any argument that doesn't address the actual issue is irrelevant. The issue of debt is not one of being real certain you are going to pay something, but of owing something.

If your gov't has committed you to pay a stream of payments for a particular purpose, it has contracted debt on your behalf.

It has no commitment. The fact that something periodic payments might be politically suicidal, or practically harmful to end, doesn't mean you have assumed an onligation to make those payments.

The definition of debt is above.

Yes and its one that shows you are wrong.
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