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DangerDave921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-16-07 10:26 AM
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76. OK
While I see your point, it is totally inapplicable to what I was saying. Nowhere did I say that I was an island whose earning capacity was in no way related to my fellow man. Of course we are all interconnected. Does that mean I can walk up to you and take a couple hundred out of your wallet if I feel like it? Of course not. In that sense of things, it is YOUR money.

My point was that it is an inappopriate argument to analyze tax cuts in terms of how much revenue the government will lose or make. The focus should be on what is a fair tax rate for the individual whose money is being taken. And yes, we do need to analyze our government's spending to make sure that they're spending our money on valid things, are not wasting it, etc. Taxes are obviously necessary. The amount, however, and spending, should alwasy be openly discussed.

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