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

To: TimF who wrote (2244)	10/18/2007 6:31:40 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

re 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. SS and Medicare spending have a dedicated tax that wouldn't be there if not for the program. You know exactly what you pay and pretty much what you receive. It you put a line item on my paycheck for "Iraq War" then I will concede your point.