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Originally posted by 12clicks
and I exposed it for the liberal claptrap it is, you went skipping off to the "no no, I agree the government speds too much.
But even that clap trap was proceeded by the fallacy you tried to slip by about the rich not really paying more and the tax rates secretly help the rich.
does being a liberal mean you don't defend you position you just keep changing it until the other side is tired of chasing you?
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You're distorting what I said to try and make me fit your image of a liberal. I never said tax rates secretly help the rich, I never said the rich didn't pay more in taxes.
What I did say was that when the lowest bracket gets a tax cut, the highest bracket also gets the exact same cut.
When the highest bracket gets a cut, ONLY the highest bracket benefits.
When I say I agree that the gov't spends too much, I'm referring mostly to political pork and the ridiculous way government agencies are run. No reasonable person would look at those numbers and say "that's the way it should be"
I also said that I want social security to be there for my parents. The fact that the social security surplus is included in the general budget in order to make the deficit look smaller is theft writ large IMO. I liked Gore's idea of a "lock box" for social security funds. Social security IS NOT where I think the gov't spends too much money.
I also said I have a child that I don't want to leave a 10 trillion dollar debt to. How does saying I think the gov't spends too much contradict that?