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Propaganda Debunking

Shagman

(135 posts)

6. Some questions...

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 03:51 PM

Feb 2012

How much of that budget goes to interest on the debt, most of which was run up by Reagan, Bush, and Bush?

How much revenue is lost to corporate welfare and the 1%'s tax cuts?

Are the costs for occupying Iraq and Afghanistan included?

Can you say oversimplified and irrelevant?

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Short Lesson on Spending [View all] Omaha Steve Jan 2012 OP

I have seen this several times. Curmudgeoness Jan 2012 #1

More to the point, SheilaT Jan 2012 #2

This is true, but the point of that circulating email Curmudgeoness Jan 2012 #3

Families don't print their own money. JDPriestly Jan 2012 #4

The U.S. was not downgraded because of revenue/expenditure ratio Bolo Boffin Jan 2012 #5

Some questions... Shagman Feb 2012 #6