(08-02-2018, 04:02 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-02-2018, 03:18 PM)pirkster Wrote: I always own my mistakes.  Will you admit that the biggest problem our federal government faces is unsustainable spending and not revenue?

I actually do agree that spending levels are not sustainable and that they are a bigger problem simply because more political will is required to change them.
I was never saying that spending levels weren't a problem.
I was only saying that we can discuss Trump's tax cuts without bringing up spending.  It is possible to talk about one thing at a time. 
Often when people don't want to yield a point, they change the subject. 
My point is:

• these tax cuts will reduce federal receipts
  
• since these tax cuts were passed with no spending cuts to go along with them, they will also increase the deficit.
  

Every time I bring up that point, someone says, "but what about spending". 
That's trying to change the topic. It doesn't matter if the new topic is more important than the old topic.  Change is change.
I'll let you change the topic, if you yield my point first.

You can see a textbook example of this rhetoric, we'll call it courtesy, in my first post in this thread.
I yielded the point that Ocasio-Cortez is bad at math.  Only then did I change the topic to Republicans also being bad at math.
So I'm not asking for any more courtesy than I've already shown you.