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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]The nation is in debt because of Reagan.[/i] No. This nation is in debt because of the Democrats in control of Congress during the Reagan administration. I'll try and dig up a web source for you tonight, but if you'd care to do the research yourself, you'll find that, thanks to a couple massive tax cuts, the economy got a kick in the pants after a decade of stagnation, and that that doubled tax revenues between '81 and '89. They went from something like $.5 billion to a trillion, as I recall. Then you'll want numbers on military spending. THAT went from something like 17% of total spending to something like 22% of total budget. You can't possibly believe that that 5% is what put us, what? Four trillion in debt? To eat up as much extra money as we had, the military would have had to have been nearly 60% of spending, not a measley 20%. Get your facts straight. [i]It's how we defeated the Soviets -- we outspent them[/i] This is right, though. Reagan was brilliant there. [i]calling people a different "species" because they look at things differently than you. How very intolerant.[/i] My, has the definition of "tolerance" become that screwed up? "Tolerance" is not saying, "Well, maybe we're ALL right." Tolerance is not burning someone at the stake because they disagree with you. Which, I suppose, doesn't say much for the DNP in their treatment of Ashcroft and Harris. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] [i]I for one don't see anything wrong with the taxes --how are they discriminatory?[/i] They're discriminatory in that certain people are treated worse than others. Is that not discrimination? [i]Okay, we pay a bit more, but it's not like we're RESTRICTED to what we can or can't do.[/i] So you don't care that you're treated worse than the rest of the country, by your own government? That concept is generally considered quite insidious when it takes place in other countries. And actually, you are restricted in what you can do with it. You can actually help people if you keep it, whereas if the government gets its hands on it, it's more likely to spend it on utter crap, like the National Endowment for the Arts. [i]I've got no problems paying a bit extra to make the country a better place.[/i] And here's the crux of the entire problem. The government DOESN'T use your money to make the country a better place. Again, it spends the extra money on the NEA ("Our strength is our perversity") or other assorted useless programs. YOU use your money to make the country a better place, or at least you can. That's the whole point. In YOUR hands, the money can actually do some good. In the GOVERNMENT's, it may as well be flushed down a toilet. One with a $600 seat on it. Or even better, one that doesn't have a seat, because it's on display in the NYC museum of modern art. [i]How would anyone guarentee that someone paid anything to charity?[/i] You wouldn't. It's your money, and you have a right not to give it away if you choose. It's all about your rights. Anyway, history shows that when people have more money to play with, they donate more. [i]Seems like it'd just be a different organization getting the money, so no real big difference there.[/i] Actually, it's a huge difference, because the government doesn't do any good with the money, and even what little it spends on charity, it has something like 25% efficiency (meaning for every dollar put into the program, a needy person gets a quarter). A real charity can have upwards of 90% efficiency. That, and the person donating chooses where the money goes. Liam: [i]The US defeated the Soviets? When was this?[/i] Why did you think the USSR fell apart? They tried to match our military spending, and spent themselves into oblivion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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