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To: tejek who wrote (550993)	2/22/2010 2:06:18 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577031

There isn't any hypocrisy to see. If someone came to your neighborhood and forced everyone to participate in a raffle with the winner getting half the money, and then you win, taking the winnings isn't being hypocritical even if you protested the idea of the raffle before it was started. The situation with the stimulus is very similar. "Don't take my money", followed by "OK I'll take some of it back", isn't hypocritical, neither is "don't take my money and give it to the prize winner", followed by "I'll take my prize now". What would be hypocritical is saying "don't take my money", than expanding the amount of takings. Makiw's analogy might be even better. Most liberal Democratic tax payers didn't send in extra checks to the government to effectively pay a higher tax rate after Bush's tax cuts. If accepting your part of a spending program is hypocritical, than so is accepting your part of tax cuts.