On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The entire rhetoric that the government is taxing the rich and giving >> it to the poor is simply not borne out by these statistics or any >> other. > > The government is taxing everyone (but especially the rich, who pay > most of the taxes) and giving a third of the money to the elderly. > Until we change those programs, we are marching inexorably to the day > when they take up every dollar of federal revenue.
You are still ignoring the fact that those elderly paid the taxes that fund Social Security with a promise of getting it back. But since you are on such a hobby-horse about it, just how would you "change those programs" without destroying the economic well-being of the elderly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
