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  Tax. the. rich.
context: Love how the deficit only matters when a democrat is in the white house.  Fuck off CNN. >
  
  What are you talking about? They talked a lot about deficits under Trump >
  
  Tax the rich, cut military spending.
  There, fixed the problem. >
  
  You could cut defense to 0 and we would still run a deficit. You could liquidate the entire net worth of every billionaire in the country and not cover federal spending for a year. >
  
  
  and not cover federal spending for a year.
  
  You moved the goalposts, I wonder why.
  We were talking about deficit, not total  federal spending (while recovering from a pandemic). >
  
  I didn't move the goal posts. I put it into context.
  Saying "TAX THE RICH, CUT MILITARY SPENDING, BOOM FIXED THE PROBLEM" just shows me that people haven't actually looked at Federal spending seriously. >
  
  The goalposts were dealing with the deficit.
  Your second example wasn’t about the deficit, but a different and much higher goal(post).
  Saying “BILLIONAIRES ALONE CAN’T PAY THE FEDERAL BUDGET” just shows me that you aren’t actually engaging with the point they raised, which was about running a deficit.
  Also, the person said “tax the rich” but you ignored the millions of multimillionaires in your hypothetical wealth tax on the “rich”. Their net worth could pay off the us federal budget multiple times over, not that it makes a difference. >
  
  If there's one positive to come out this whole shitshow of a decade it's that we're all getting a lot better at recognizing and calling out these disingenuous "debate" strategies. >
  
  Yeah, nobody mentions how the economy was starting to implode just before the pandemic happened. >
  
  Every recession in my adult life has started under a republican, and every republican has had at least one.  Trump was going to crash the economy no matter what. >
  
  Wannabe MAGA CNN continues to wave it's "Look at US America! We are Just Like Fox News*" banner.