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Pwned? You really think those problems are going to be solved in the near term? Given the state of our government?
by largesse 14y ago
Pwned? You really think those problems are going to be solved in the near term? Given the state of our government?
- saraid216 14y agoThe state of our government is in no small part due to people refusing to be taxed.
- dreamdu5t 14y agoAmerican tax rates are not outliers and spending as a percentage of GDP is historically high.
- saraid216 14y agoIrrelevant. The point being made originally was about legislative deadlock.
- hnal943 14y agoIt's not irrelevant - you claimed that the reason legislative deadlock occurs is that people refused to be taxed more. What about the people who refuse to cut automatic increases to spending? Are they to be absovled?
- saraid216 14y agoConsidering the context of this thread, which is about reasons to increase spending and the fact that this would never happen in a deadlocked legislature, the idea that people who refuse to cut spending would be to blame is sort of contradictory.
- largesse 14y agoThat's a fine observation, but unless it can be fixed in the aggregate it's still part of the intractability of the problem. Or (more directly), you're not offering a solution, you're making a complaint.