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To: cosmicforce who wrote (216447)	2/9/2013 12:31:15 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) of 542139

"<I think the government CAN do things well.> Mostly at the smaller scale. The larger the project, the more poorly it is run from what I can see." What was bigger than Man on the Moon? What road system is bigger than the Interstate? Who made a bigger boom than the Manhattan Project? Why is Medicare and VA better run than the private health-care sector? Why does the government bail out private pension plans, but private pensions aren't needed to bail out SS? Who else would have funded AIDs research and produced the drugs we use today? "when debt for a country is 80% of what the whole country makes", it's time to make more. That means a jobs program. It also means raising revenues by closing loopholes and giveaways, as they say, since it'll be a while before the US raises taxes again. I don't care whether we increase Willard's taxes to 50%, or we tell him, "You can't have $100M in your IRA and we are taking 75% in taxes and fines." Revenue is revenue.

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