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I love how they have a $75B surplus and immediately jump to spending $100B. Government just can't help spending more than they have.

• jwhitlark 5y ago
  In a sense, government is like medical care, the first question is "how do we make this right", then you see if you can afford it, or what tradeoffs you have to make. So having it is second to actually looking at the problems. Why do we single out Government for this treatment? We don't generally say "Look at that homeowner, with that mortgage, the just can't help spending more than they have." We certainly don't say that about startups raising funds, either...
  • seniorivn 5y ago
    because none of you examples have a luxury of forcing people to pay them for their services
    • jwhitlark 5y ago
      One can always move if the value proposition doesn't seem worth it. There are certainly parts of the world where that isn't true, but California isn't one of them.
• icedistilled 5y ago
  Where does it actually say they are deficit spending? I see the total budget is like $227B but I don't see the total intake. I even did some quick googling could find that number.