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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (2226)10/18/2007 5:45:06 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
No big difference at all. Social security spending is spending. So is Medicare. So is the spending on the war. The existence of an associated tax doesn't change those facts. If you renamed the federal income tax, in to "the Iraq War tax", then you could say "the Iraq war has a huge surplus", but that wouldn't be much of an argument for staying in Iraq.

While we have a deficit, all spending is equally "on the countries credit card".


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