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"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

I can't see that. Suppose I get a tax deduction. That
means I pay less tax.

You pay less tax, everyone else pays more.

Find me the part of the tax code that is even remotely self
compensating for these kinds of things. If it was true, we would only be
in about the pickle we are today. There remains no mechanism where a
dollar saved here is replaced by a dollar from someone else.


CY: If the government spending remains constant, they would
pay a higher percentage of the government take.
And if my aunt had balls she's be my uncle. Who can possibly enter
government spending remaining constant into this conversation and expect
to keep any credibility?




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"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on."
---PJ O'Rourke