I am so sick of hearing about how we can spend the money we save from ending the wars!!!!

[quaker bill]

61. A gap in your logic

It is clear that we are putting something on the charge card, but what? I think what we are putting on the charge card are "tax expenditures", basically, the various lowered rates, preferences and writeoffs republicans gave to the top of the income scale.

The tax expenditures are larger than the actual revenue collected, and roughly the size of the deficit with the wars included in the budget.

Of course this can be spun anyway one cares to go. Perhaps the war is being funded with cash, and social welfare payments are on the charge card. Perhaps it is weapons purchases going on the government visa card.... You pick the wars, but it is not necessarily so, and more importantly irrelevant. Spending less money is spending less money.