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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberal
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 22:27:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 22:27:08 1984
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> > You 'fuzzy' headed liberals must always have your head in the sand.
> > How could one even think of voting for Mondale.  Mondale has promised
> > to raise your income tax.  This means less money in your pay check and
> > less in mine.  His answer to all problems is to raise income taxes.
> 
> Damned right.  We must never vote for anyone who will promise to
> raise our taxes.  Instead vote for anyone who promises to spend
> trillions of dollars we don't have for more military weapons
> that we most desperately need.

(How did he know I'm fuzzy-headed?)

Well, what loral!rfs (> >) forgot to mention, and what conrad (>) seems to
be ignoring, is that Mondale wants to raise taxes and Reagan doesn't
because Reagan has magic arithmetic that Mondale doesn't.  You see, Conrad,
it isn't really NECESSARY to raise our taxes; Reagan can increase defense
spending, cut taxes, and balance the budget (including servicing the
existing debt) all at once.

Just look at Reagan's success so far.  He got his tax cut, he got some of
his defense increases, and managed to do it all and get a massive increase
in the deficit at the same time.  (What?  Huh?  You say a deficit is
negative?  Like a debt?  Oh, geez, that's terrible...hey, don't tell Mr.
Reagan.  You didn't?  Oh, OK then...yeah, just let him dream on...)

Seriously (barely), when are you thick-headed conservatives going to wake
up to the fact that if you spend more dollars than you got, you go into
debt?  Arithmetic doesn't start working backwards when you go over a
billion, and dollars spent on defense don't count as income.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Simpler is better.