[Vision2020] Dale Courtney Refuses to Publish My Response

[Nicholas Gier]

Good Morning Visionaries:

Dale Courtney, moderator of the site right-mind.us, has refused to publish
this reply to his recent letter to the Daily News.

Hi Dale:

You seemed to have forgotten that I responded to you on this question
earlier on a letter you wrote to the Lewiston Tribune on exactly the same
topic. You posted the letter on your site and I responded with what I've
posted below.

If you did not forget about this exchange, then you are just being
intellectually dishonest. Doug Wilson did this after our abortion debate in
1993, and that is when I began to lose respect for him. When anyone refuses
to respond to points already made and pretends that they have not been
made, then he has not only lost the debate but also his virtue.

Now to the point: Obama inherited on-going debt from Bush, namely, huge
amounts due to his tax cuts and unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This
is in stark contrast to the relatively small debt that Obama incurred because
of the ACA and the stimulus, which nearly all economists say was a success.

Using figures from the Congressional Budget Office, the Center for Budget
and Policy Priorities has calculated the long-term effects of various
elements of the national debt, assuming that the Bush tax cuts are still in
place. (This was before the current tax bill.) By 2019 those cuts will
amount to $600 billion of the debt burden as opposed to $75 billion for
Obama’s programs. We will still be paying $320 billion for the Great
Recession (due to a drop in tax revenues) and $150 billion for the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan.

And once again, since you don't understand the connection, when a
government runs deficits, it adds to its debt. Clinton reduced the annual
deficit until there was a surplus. That, dear sir, reduced the national
debt. Bush turned around and added to it. When Obama reduced the annual
deficit from 10% to 3.2%, he was reducing the national debt.

After nearly a year of Trump it is back up to 3.5% and it will go much
higher with the new tax bill. The result will be an increase in the
national debt. This is what happened with the Reagan tax cuts, and he then
had to raise taxes seven times, but that did not, primarily because of
excessive defense spending, prevent the tripling of the national debt.

By the way, the deficit for the Eurozone is now 1.3%, and their debt is now
easing because of this. Greece is almost running a surplus with a deficit
of only .8%. Socialist Sweden is running a 1% surplus.

Yours for honest debate (hopefully one that does not needed to be repeated),

Nick

-- 

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.

--Immanuel Kant
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