So... it would be more ACCURATE to describe you as "anti-tax" then as "anti-deficits".
(You would rank "opposing ALL taxes" as MORE IMPORTANT to you personally then "opposing all deficits".)
Whereas I, (who also never want to see 'taxes' in general raised either) would never-the-less rank "opposing chronic deficits" as AT LEAST of equal importance, if not of greater importance.
Because, DEFICITS ARE TAXES in that money must be borrowed, interest on that borrowed money accrues, and the piper must (one day) be paid his due!
Re: "The fact that you call me a big spender shows how out of touch you are with the discussions on SI."
And, EXACTLY THE SAME would go, Bill, if you were to try to call me a 'big spender', which, (as anyone who knows me would know), I *manifestly* am not. <g>
Still, I maintain what I said earlier: there is a *big difference* (in the area of "deficit reduction") between someone who is actually PREPARED to take strong medicine to reduce chronic federal deficits, willing to MANDATE THAT BUDGETS BE BALANCED, and letting the chips fall where they will as for the rest... willing to accept the American public's decisions about what programs they want and which ones they don't want to spend money on (example: Social Security or foreign wars? Farm price supports or inner city programs? etc., etc.), and someone who is NOT WILLING to put deficit elimination at the TOP of the pile, and NOT willing to abide with the program choices his fellow American citizens may make....
(Same would go with the topic of 'taxes'. Should they be 'level, flat' with no loopholes? I think so. Should ALL INCOME regardless of source be taxed exactly the same way? I think so. So, even WITHIN the area where the OVERALL AMOUNT of taxes remains UNCHANGED, there is still *plenty* to talk about insofar as 'what is fairer', 'what is more productive for the economy and society', etc., etc.)
But, as far as the choice of MANDATING THAT THE GOVERNMENT *NOT* RUN DEFICITS, I believe it is fair to note that I assign Deficit Elimination the HIGHEST of priorities (whereas you may thing that it is "important" but you do NOT put it ahead of other policy considerations....)
There lies the difference, Bill. |
