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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by tasty_freeze on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:17PM (#44259473)
That isn't really an argument to simply say people who don't agree with you aren't sane.
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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by lostlogin on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:34PM (#44259688)
Can you give an example of austerity working?
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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by fzeroracer on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:35PM (#44259721)
Do you remember something that happened in 2018? A budget perhaps passed by the fans of austerity that blew up the deficit harder than anything else?
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Re:Trump's NASA cuts would destroy decades of science and wi... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:35PM (#44259710)
No, that doesn't follow. The alternative (and to me obviously correct answer) is that "austerity" is a trick and the only alternative to growing deficit spending is higher taxes. Precisely because it's not a transient problem, random unprincipled cuts cannot solve it; there's no baseline healthy budget that we can get back to if we just trim some excess.
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