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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (39328)12/7/2009 2:26:10 PM
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Changing the tax rate around for every moderate sized program or program change (and "the Afghan Surge" is a modest expense by federal government standards), is more disruptive than conservative.

The effort to impose a tax for Afghanistan at this time isn't a fiscal conservative effort, its a military and foreign policy effort. The idea is to kill the surge or even American deployment in Afghanistan in general. If it was so much a fiscal conservative thing, the same people would have been calling for tax increases for all the numerous equivalent, larger, or much larger federal initiatives in recent years, and they didn't.

In any case a recession is a bad time to raise taxes whatever its implications in terms of fiscal balance.

Also continually increasing spending while raising the taxes to pay for it, isn't conservative or an example of discipline.
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