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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (33848)3/10/2009 11:26:52 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Sounds like slippery 'weasel words' to me.

If *SOME* tax cuts need to actually be 'counted as spending', while *OTHER* tax cuts need to 'not be counted as spending... then someone needs to take that peculiar (and totally undefined) new definition and go back over the past 30 years or so of economic history, and go through each President's economic policies and reclassify all their policies --- because I AM CERTAIN that --- under this new and peculiar definition --- a whole Hell of a lot of old tax reductions would need to be called "spending" now! (The Reagan administration alone will prove fertile ground for redefining history, and so too will the Clinton and Bush II years!).

Now, I'm an old-fashioned sort... none of this NEW-SPEAK for me.

To me --- ONLY MONEY THAT GETS APPROPRIATED AND THEN SPENT should be called 'spending'... but you kids can go on having fun with you New Age 'PC' redefinitions if you wish....
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