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Old 04-19-2012, 03:02 PM
 
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If a fetus really is just a clump of cells or a potential baby like you liberals say, then how can you argue that potential tax revenue not yet collected by the government costs the government money? If it hasn't been taxed yet, it isn't tax revenue... so how can lowering someone's tax rates possibly cost the government money?
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Old 04-19-2012, 03:04 PM
 
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If a fetus really is just a clump of cells or a potential baby like you liberals say, then how can you argue that potential tax revenue not yet collected by the government costs the government money? If it hasn't been taxed yet, it isn't tax revenue... so how can lowering someone's tax rates possibly cost the government money?
Because they WANT the tax revenue, the fetus, not so much. It's a matter of CHOICE.
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Old 04-19-2012, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Southern New Hampshire
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Wow, what an idiotic parallel.

Note that I'm not calling the OP an idiot (I am too nice to do that), just his question.
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Old 04-19-2012, 03:26 PM
 
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If a fetus really is just a clump of cells or a potential baby like you liberals say, then how can you argue that potential tax revenue not yet collected by the government costs the government money? If it hasn't been taxed yet, it isn't tax revenue... so how can lowering someone's tax rates possibly cost the government money?
Does anyone have a decoder ring?
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Old 04-19-2012, 03:32 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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If a fetus really is just a clump of cells or a potential baby like you liberals say, then how can you argue that potential tax revenue not yet collected by the government costs the government money? If it hasn't been taxed yet, it isn't tax revenue... so how can lowering someone's tax rates possibly cost the government money?
What the hell are you talking about?

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Old 04-19-2012, 04:43 PM
 
Location: WA
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What the hell are you talking about?

If a tomato is a fruit, then why do dogs bark at postal workers?
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Old 04-19-2012, 04:48 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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I think you might want to make another comparison to make your point.


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If a fetus really is just a clump of cells or a potential baby like you liberals say, then how can you argue that potential tax revenue not yet collected by the government costs the government money? If it hasn't been taxed yet, it isn't tax revenue... so how can lowering someone's tax rates possibly cost the government money?
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Old 04-19-2012, 05:21 PM
 
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I get the OP's point but this thread is like a bad Geico commercial.
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Old 04-19-2012, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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I get the OP's point but this thread is like a bad Geico commercial.
Does life begin at conception?

Do cats meow?

Geico - 15 minutes can save you...
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Old 04-20-2012, 07:44 AM
 
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If a fetus really is just a clump of cells or a potential baby like you liberals say, then how can you argue that potential tax revenue not yet collected by the government costs the government money? If it hasn't been taxed yet, it isn't tax revenue... so how can lowering someone's tax rates possibly cost the government money?
Interesting way of looking at things. The thread title is kind of a non sequitur but it's actually kind of a cool comparison.

It works for the health care law too. I heard Ruth Bader Ginsburg say they can force you to buy insurance with the commerce clause because at some undetermined point in the future you may need health care and might not be able to pay for it out of pocket and that might cost the provider money which might cause them to raise their rates which would cause the insurance companies to raise their premiums. So therefore by doing absolutely nothing you are in fact participating in the health insurance market and subject to being mandated to buy health insurance by the government. then to top it off, they say they can do this via the clause covering interstate commerce even though the government bans insurance from being sold across state lines, thus making it illegal for the health insurance market to be interstate commerce in the first place.

And these are the same liberals who come out with a bunch of gun control laws and tell you that the constitution saying "the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed" somehow should definitely not be interpreted as meaning that people have a right to bear arms which shouldn't be infringed.
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