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DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
4. Nice Job Of Doublespeak
Tue Apr 10, 2012, 12:12 AM
Apr 2012

Expansion of the Medicare trust fund creates more spending.

What Blahous is saying here is that when revenue is used to purchase U.S Bonds for the trust fund it counts as spending because the money is no longer available. When you or I buy savings bonds we consider this as savings but in order for Blahous to be able to make his deficit claim he inappropriately claims putting money in savings for future use is actually spending.

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