Isnt this really just the largest tax increase?

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Not sure if anyone's talked about this here, but when they come out and say they made the largest spending cuts ever made, dont they really mean that they made the largest tax increase? Considering that they are cutting many programs middle and lowerclass need and want, but arnt going to lower our taxes at all to compensate... So we're going to be paying the same for less, or a clever way on increasing taxes without calling it a tax increase???

[dems_rightnow]

1. Ummmm... no

Black is not really white.
The moon is not the sun at night.

[Unvanguard]

2. The dirty little secret of government budgets is that you're right.

Cutting taxes is spending money. Raising taxes is cutting spending. They are different in form, but identical in their effect on revenue and close enough in their effect on everything else.

Politically, however, it is much easier to get away with cutting taxes on the rich than spending money on them, and with cutting spending on the middle class and the poor than increasing taxes on them. So, giving money to the rich is a matter of taxation, and taking money away from the poor and the middle class is a matter of spending.

[grahamhgreen]

3. Yes.