Spinning The Obvious
C’mon, when you say something like this:
Increased spending inevitably means increased taxes. Thus, despite
President Bush’s much vaunted tax cuts, Americans actually pay more in
taxes today than they did during Bill Clinton’s last year in office.
you’re just asking for a smackdown.
Of course taxes increase when spending increases. Everything you buy is taxed, retaxed and taxed again. From manufacture to sale, raw materials, labor, import/export, transportation, everything that goes into a product has been taxed out the ass.
So saying that increased spending equals increased taxes is like saying water makes you wet. At merely the 5% sales tax, if I spend $10, I’m taxed 50 cents, but if I spend $20, I’m taxed $1… fuck, I’m being taxed double because I spent double!
However, focusing on the tax cut to make your point is a dickhead move. “Don’t give a tax cut because you’re just going to spend more in taxes anyway”… what kind of retarded argument is that?
