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Jan. 23rd, 2008
The Wrong Stimulus
Jan. 23rd, 2008 09:16 amA hundred million handouts is dumb.
If the federal government enacts a ‘stimulus package’ of handing out $500-1000 to a hundred million Americans, then it is exactly the kind of stupid ‘taking money away from you so they can give it back to you’ that anti-tax nuts complain about. No! Don’t do it! When you already have the $100,000,000,000 in one place there are much better things you can do with it that you can’t do with 100,000,000 little chunks of $1000. Energy development! Health Care! Anything! Give it to NASA and we could do as well.
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If the federal government enacts a ‘stimulus package’ of handing out $500-1000 to a hundred million Americans, then it is exactly the kind of stupid ‘taking money away from you so they can give it back to you’ that anti-tax nuts complain about. No! Don’t do it! When you already have the $100,000,000,000 in one place there are much better things you can do with it that you can’t do with 100,000,000 little chunks of $1000. Energy development! Health Care! Anything! Give it to NASA and we could do as well.
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