If you want to spin it that way... then letting the Bush tax cuts expire is not a tax increase!

 

And the Earned Income Tax Credit really is a tax credit.



How can you get a credit for something that you haven't even paid into?

 

The point is $36B is being cut from Medicare.

 

36B is not being cut. The increase in spending year to year is being reduced.

2007 budget year Medicare will have more $$ in it than 2006

2008 will have more $$ than 2007.

The only way you would be correct is if (I'm using general figures) in 2007, the Medicare budget is 136B and in 2008, the Medicare budget is 100B.

 

cut -- To reduce the size, extent, or duration of; curtail or shorten: cut a payroll; cut a budget; cut the cooking time in half.

The only way you would be correct is if health expenses never went up.

And regardless of your attempted spin, it is a reverse-robinhood tactic.

 

Using the word *cut* is simply wrong.


NOTHING is being cut!

So Medicare doesn't grow at 10% per year, it's been reduced to 9% per year.

The Medicare budget will still be greater than the previous year.

It's not that hard of a concept to understand.

 

I really don't care what you think about the word "cut".