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I often remind myself that i'm having this discussion with a person that believes ten years of 2.64% growth = 26.4% growth and a person who can't create a post without using smileys.
That helps keep things in perspective, valeyard.
Oh it's absurd?????????
How long as medicare been extended?
A. Medicare was paid for with a tax.
B. Medicare was started as a permanent program.
On the other hand, almost every program from the New Deal was gone by 1941. The Office of Economic Opportunity and the federal money for public housing development form the 1960's is gone. The money spent to build the Space Shuttle is gone.
I could go on, but you *hopefully* get the point.
Yes. you know what it's used for nowadays? To fund rural broadband. Is that a problem for you?
WHEN has the government cut ANYTHING they ever started and guarranteed money coming into their coffers?
The whole point of the stimulus is that it doesn't involve money coming into the coffers. It's new deficit spending to increase effective demand.
You think medicare is paid for????????
Social Security is paid for????????
Would you explain the deficit if they are all "paid for" with taxes?
Yes, they are paid for. That's what payroll taxes cover. Of course, you'd need to be employed to know that.
And you can't give me the line the deficit was ONLY caused by the Iraq war.
hmmm...Let's see. It's like I already explained that. Here, we'll try again:
Tax cuts, wars and unfunded new programs caused the deficit.
The point being, whether you like it or not, the government NEVER CUTS ANYTHING. You admitted it by admitting the tax for rural phones now brings us (supposedly) rural broadband.
So the government still funds the WPA and the NIRA? One might begin to think you don't read my posts, you just reply with whatever Valeyard might want.