> you undermine our chances at constructive discourse when you exaggerate or otherwise decontextualize a situation. You are proving my point. You have decided

> you undermine our chances at constructive discourse when you exaggerate or otherwise decontextualize a situation. You are proving my point. You have decided it is absurd to question anything. You have unilaterally decided what I said isn't true and whatever the hell you believe is, in fact, the only truth. Therefore, nothing to see here. Do not question authority. Do not question spending. Do not even bother to engage in any level of forensic accounting to see what's going on. > It's also absurdly disingenuous to claim that "we never question taxation. And never question spending." You are also confusing politicians TALKING about taxation and spending with us DOING something about it. For all that debating, we throw money at (likely) millions of things we should not be funding at all. One of those categories is what I call "stupid foreign aid". At the state level, things are not any better. Here in CA we have been duped by politicians into throwing money at a ridiculous high speed train that went from "We can build it for $10 billion" to now being somewhere over $130 billion and rising. They are saying it will require another $140 billion to complete. Here we are, nearly twenty years after voter passed a $10 billion dollar proposition and got nothing for it. This stupid thing will probably cost half a trillion dollars and will never attract enough riders to even approximate direct and indirect costs. You have to wonder how many projects like this exist in the federal budget. Crap that is doing nothing but burning cash. > by much more serious people than yourself. And then, having nothing to say, you resort to personal attacks. As if that is going to change reality in any way. Good for you. We must kneel down, bow our heads and accept what we are told. Taxation is OK. Do no question it. Ever. Spending is OK. Do not question it. Ever. Got it.