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I still don’t understand why that’s an argument against government spending.

• eru 3y ago
  It's not an argument against government spending, nor was it intended as one. What makes you think so? It's an argument against this specific argument for government spending. Making bad arguments is excessively easy, independent of whether the thing argued for is good or bad, or true or false. To give a simple example: consider a faulty proof of Pythagoras' theorem. See eg https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/FalseProofs.shtml https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/FalseProofs.shtml Pointing out flaws in these purported proofs is not an argument against Pythagoras' theorem; it's still true after all. It's merely an argument against the faulty arguments.