When people scream "PayFor" TaxCuts, We'veGot even biggerProblems!
When a person gets a pay cut, that person's "revenue" goes down. Simple, right? The person must then adjust his spending accordingly. The person would make ZERO sense if he started saying "how am I gonna PAY FOR my pay cut?"
But when the gvt is asked to reduce its revenue by reducing our taxes, they and the media and everyone, even the best conservative commenters and most informed businessmen ask "how will the gvt PAY FOR the tax cuts"! LANGUAGE therefore leads to hundreds of millions of people COMPLETELY being separated from logic. There is no "paying for" tax cuts! There is only "adjusting the gvt's spending to better deal with the change in revenues." And of course most of us know that when taxes are cut, revenues to gvt actually increase, so there is yet another layer of separation from logic embedded in this whole issue and how it's discussed. Not to get into that layer specifically. But the "pay for" thing drives me crazy! It's even become a NOUN if you listen to congressmen, who often ask "well where are the pay-fors?" Idiots, all of them.
