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Re: Obama's win - good or bad for the US/the world?
Posted:
Nov 7, 2012 4:15 PM
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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:09 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I know that sounds expensive, but on the contrary it's not up to
> taxpayers to provide in many cases. I'm up for stacking all the
> military costs directly on taxpayers as their primary liability as
> citizens (the flip side of a Reaganesque position), and then seeing
> what's left over. Could be that US taxpayers give 0.0 in foreign aid
> once all military (including VA, pensions) are subtracted, and that
> much education is borrowed not-revenue too. Paul will maybe run the
> numbers for us.
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> Once military expenses, broadly are interpreted, are subtracted from
> net IRS revenue, what's left for taxpayers to take credit for? Do USA
> citizens even pay for their own schools? Or is that China again?
>
I already did run them in a general way in my message
"Re: Speachless In New York (or, another OMG moment) "
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7914775
as well as in other messages, repeatedly. It's just not that hard to get the total debt to start moving down as a percentage of GDP while not reducing social spending. It just takes smarts and guts on the part of non-conservative politicians (conservative ones are not interested in lowering the debt while preserving social spending).
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