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Mr. Tester, I've been reading Mr. Black's posts and the accompanying comments for some time now and although I sometimes agree with your posts - one example was your excellent recommendations for how to effectively decrease our military spending and presence in the world - most often, your comments lack valid logical analysis. Simply stating, as you often do, that "the other guys do it, too," doesn't make something right, ethical, or even constitutional just because the Supreme Court says so...
It's funny how Mr. Perry, in the typical fashion of many politicians, ignores facts while denigrating his opponent's record. The Massachusetts health care program is quite successful and popular with the state's residents. See this link:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/04/mvf_healthcare_mass.html
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I'm sorry, but you forgot to post your citations. If you look at statistics state-by-state, you find, not surprisingly, that states with the lowest taxes also typically have the crummiest educational systems, the worst health care, the highest poverty levels, and are supported the most by the federal government. (Alaska, which has essentially a negative income tax, accepts massive funding from the feds). States with the highest tax rates are the opposite.
Republicans...