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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: koan who wrote (68669)	4/27/2018 3:21:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 356577

Tax cuts wasn't government spending or wasting money. It was letting other people keep their own money and spend it how they wanted to. Defense spending well you could make an argument that it shouldn't have been as large but by the late seventies (before Carter began the buildup that Regan extended) there was a serious need to replenish our military, and replace obsolete and/or worn out equipment. And that replacement allowed future presidents to not have to replace the equipment so it helped them control defense spending growth (except now some of that equipment is getting pretty old, and the stuff that wasn't replaced then like tankers and B-52s is even older) But whatever spending should have been on is besides the point in this context. I'm noting that even then a big chunk of the money went to increased spending on social programs, and that since then most of it has gone in that direction. Its a positive (is/was) statement not a normative (ought) statement. You keep replying to "is/was" with "ought" as if that was some sort of refutation of what's really happened.

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