Your unsubstantiated attacks against me are not appreciated. Others have provided links showing the states spending going up by %50, over a period where the GD

Your unsubstantiated attacks against me are not appreciated. Others have provided links showing the states spending going up by %50, over a period where the GDP didn't go up by %50, the population didn't go up by %50. I saw no reason to provide the links that others had already provided, yet you dishonestly characterize me as having failed to provide substantiation for facts that aren't even in dispute. I call that attack dog mode. Socialism is a real thing, and if we're to have an honest discussion about anything, we must be allowed to speak of them honestly. You don't get to rule out whole swaths of reality from discussion because a particular ideology has had a checkered history... especially when people are advocating that ideology.