Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "Biden Is Lying About the Deficit" video.

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Raising taxes on businesses would reduce federal tax receipts, and would also wreck the economy, which is what has happened every single time that such tax hikes were enacted. Universal healthcare would not only cost money, it would lead to long waitlines, rationing and preventable death, as it has wherever it's been tried.
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@YashArya01 Libertarians are constitutionalists who point out that the US government was never supposed to be involved with wealth redistribution, which has been both anti-Constitutional and a proven failure. I have major disagreements with the Libertarians on other issues, but they are absolutely correct regarding their opposition to out-of-control spending and government-based social programs.
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@camadams9149 You're quick with grade school insults, but those are a lousy substitute for facts. If you only get your information from far-left sources, you are bound to believe the nonsense that you are spouting. Again, universal healthcare is an abject failure. Other countries are able to maintain those systems because a)the US heavily subsidizes their healthcare, and b)they limit their medical care, which leads to outrageously long wait times and a significant number of avoidable deaths. Now if you are interested in educating yourself, I can help point to toward some factual resources. If you prefer to avoid the facts and instead prefer hurling childish insults while wallowing in ignorance, then I can't help you. Nobody can.
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@edd542 I think Cam Adams has made it rather clear that he is uninterested in "the free and open exchange of ideas and of opinions", to quote the late Bob Grant. There's plenty here for him to digest should he have any interest in learning, but don't hold your breath. I do appreciate your earnest attempts though. I do have higher hopes for the other respondent in this thread, Annathema Anderson.
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Hasn't caught Trump on that score. Never will, either.
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@billvigus3719 Try to stay focused on the matter at hand instead of changing the topic. Do you believe that Trump is a truth teller? Really? He lies with abandon, and has all his life.
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@Zeakthecat Biden is certainly corrupt, but anti-corruption is not a specifically libertarian issue. You're looking for Reason to act as if they are Fox News or The American Spectator. That's not their job.
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@rogermcbadlad2812 Thank you! I very much appreciate your writing that. It does take a certain amount of effort to write a worthwhile comment, especially if it involves bringing sources. One is often left wondering if it serves any purpose. (Indeed, I am occasionally asked by other commenters why I bother.) If even one person takes it seriously and gains from it, though, I feel much better that I took the time.
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@kavustock Really??
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Reason is a libertarian thought outfit, not a political hit squad. You're looking for The American Spectator, or Fox News.
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@annathemaanderson4448 There are many articles explaining different aspects of the abject failure of socialized medicine. If you are looking for me to explain all of what I wrote, I guess I could, although it gets pretty long. You can start by reading a short article by John C. Goodman, called "What Socialized Medicine Looks Like", and by watching a short YT video by Thomas Sowell, called: "Healthcare: What Politicians Don't Want You To Know" here on YT. You can also read a short book review of a tome by Sally C. Pipes. The article is titled, "Thomas Sowell: Book busts myths about other nations’ universal health care". Elsewhere, Sowell summed it up succinctly: "It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."
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@rogermcbadlad2812 Excellent! Please get back to me should you have any questions or comments. No pressure. Thank you.
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As a US history teacher, I can assure you that Joe Biden is the worst president in US history. And the exploding deficit is only a small part of the reason why. Reason is also correct that Trump's spending was a major problem, though not as bad as Biden.
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@wheel-man5319 Yup. My point exactly.
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What a brilliantly argued response. The light of genius radiating off your carefully worded rebuttal is blindingly spectacular.
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@anaveragehuman2937 If your point is that Biden is a disaster of a president, then we agree. But Trump supporters can't exactly hit Biden on the lying front, of all things.
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@anaveragehuman2937 Well, I'll explain why you're wrong, in the hope that you actually care for a real answer. This video is about Joe Biden lying about the deficit. You then commented about Biden lying about everything, a departure from the video's discussion of a specific, false claim, turned instead into a personal attack on Biden. It was designed to show that lying is a Biden trademark. Considering, though, that Biden's predecessor was and is a more prolific liar than Biden is, it is disingenuous to act as if lying is endemic to Biden and Biden alone. Meaning, if I posted an original comment in response to the video, saying, "But Trump lied about the election!", then that would be off-point, and a total what-about-ism. But once you've tried to paint congenital lying as a Biden-specific issue, it rather obviously comes off as blindly partisan because Biden's predecessor lied even more than Biden does. My comment is very relevant to yours.
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@anaveragehuman2937 I explained this already.
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@anaveragehuman2937 Whether you're being willfully closedminded or are simply too dense is not of real consequence. We live in times wherein far too many on both sides prefer rhetoric reinforcement to open thought and exchange of ideas.
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Not a libertarian issue
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@Zeakthecat That's a stretch. If you're looking for channels to dump all over Biden for general failure as well as corruption, then your choices are many. Reason's raison d'etre is elsewhere.
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@Zeakthecat Yeah, I explained this already. As you wish.
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@kavustock Gee. Ohhhkaaay.
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Biden's corruption issues are very serious, but what does that have to do with libertarianism?
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