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mine) on employees and employers, other taxes, and borrowing. Does it really matter, does it make anything clearer, whether social security payments are or are not lumped with other social spending? All government outlays are in one way or another "fixed by law” and received by "beneficiaries” regardless of who is in the White House.
Mr. Herring, noting that proposed defense appropriations increase more rapidly than proposed social spending, states that “...we can draw our own conclusions from these figures about where his priorities lay.” The intended implication: President Reagan's worry over America’s defense posture demonstrates his lack of concern for the poor, disabled and aged - a conclusion that simply does not follow!
Spending priorities of governments and individuals change. One year more goes for housing, the next more for health. This does not mean that a person values one over- the other. It does suggest a change in circumstances, a new priority - because unfortunately no government, no person, can
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