So, when it comes to collecting money everyone has to pay, regardless of how their representatives voted, but, when it comes to spending that money only those who live in districts where the representative voted for a program should reap the benefits?
I am pretty sure that is not how the system was designed to work. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Representatives (and I use that term loosely) who are demagoguing > over this issue are hypocrites of the highest order. As to your > point, there is a big difference between voluntary and mandatory > programs. If you increase or decrease the marginal rates for a tax > bracket, that's the rate for everyone in that bracket, end of story. > On the other hand, if you put together a program where people can > compete for funds, participation in that program is voluntary. > > I am vehemently opposed to funding for abstinence-only education > programs. When Bush and Republican-lead Congress passed massive > increases in such programs, I wasn't happy, but hey, you lose > legislative battles sometimes. However, if my Rep had railed against > abstinence-only education funding and then turned right around and put > in earmarks for local funding of abstinence-only programs, I would > have called him a rank hypocrite. So I do the same now to those who > display such total cowardly and craven behavior. > > Judah > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Or, if Congress votes to extend the Bush Tax Cuts, should those whose >> Representatives or Senators not get their tax cuts extended? >> >> If Congress votes to increase taxes, maybe we should only increase the >> taxes of those people whose representatives voted for it? >> >> Do I need to go on? >> >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Yeah, that sounds about right to me. If you scream Socialism! and run >>>> a campaign saying that the stimulus is the devil and that it doesn't >>>> create any jobs, then no, you don't get to have any of it. Don't think >>>> it creates jobs? Great, lets run an experiment and see how the states >>>> do who take the money and those who do not. >>> >>> Does this attitude carry over to 'Obamacare'? Should only those people >>> who live in districts whose representatives and senators who voted for >>> it be allowed to get the provisions of the healthcare bill? >>> >>> Wait...let me guess...'its different'.... >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Scott Stroz >>> --------------- >>> You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can >>> wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris >>> >>> http://xkcd.com/386/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Scott Stroz >> --------------- >> You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can >> wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris >> >> http://xkcd.com/386/ >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
