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POPSSpending Redefined Is it just me, or does that way of looking at things just seem wrong? Giving "tax breaks" isn't spending. If I take a pay cut, I'm not "spending" my money back to my employer, am I? In negotiations with a a struggling company, the union rep doesn't come back to the employees and say, "In order to keep your jobs at all, you have to spend 3% of your paycheck back to the company." She says, "In order to keep your jobs at all, you're going to have to take a 3% pay cut. If I take a pay cut, I change my budget. Perhaps that means 10 fewer sodas a month, or taking my lunch to work an extra day a week. Perhaps I *gasp* take public transit regularly and cut down on personal fuel and maintenance costs. It is this mentality, accompanied by greed and pride, that is at the core of our governmental problems. Taxes are OUR money. Letting us keep it is not "spending" it.
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