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{{footnote/target|1}}"House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday he believes '''the CBO, a nonpartisan group long considered by both parties to be an impartial referee on budget matters''', was manipulated by Democrats to produce a false estimate of savings in the health care reform law." — [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/health-care-law-repeal-advanced-house-republicans/story?id=12565523 ABC News] (emphasis added) | {{footnote/target|1}}"House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday he believes '''the CBO, a nonpartisan group long considered by both parties to be an impartial referee on budget matters''', was manipulated by Democrats to produce a false estimate of savings in the health care reform law." — [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/health-care-law-repeal-advanced-house-republicans/story?id=12565523 ABC News] (emphasis added) | ||
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{{footnote/target|2}}One commenter on that thread took it even further:<blockquote>$770b in taxes we won't need to pay, and $540b we won't need to spend. We save $1.31 trillion just by repealing Obamacare.</blockquote>(She even called this thinking "Democratic math", but didn't give any justification for this.) The fact that nobody pointed out the flaw in this logic makes me wonder if they possibly actually think that ''any flow of money to or from the government'' somehow increases the deficit... presumably because it means you're "spending money". | {{footnote/target|2}}[[File:Math error-300x229.png|150px|right]]One commenter on that thread took it even further:<blockquote>$770b in taxes we won't need to pay, and $540b we won't need to spend. We save $1.31 trillion just by repealing Obamacare.</blockquote>(She even called this thinking "Democratic math", but didn't give any justification for this.) The fact that nobody pointed out the flaw in this logic makes me wonder if they possibly actually think that ''any flow of money to or from the government'' somehow increases the deficit... presumably because it means you're "spending money". | ||
Was that statement a [[issuepedia:Poe's Law|Poe]], and understood as such by all other commenters, or is that really how they think? | Was that statement a [[issuepedia:Poe's Law|Poe]], and understood as such by all other commenters, or is that really how they think? | ||
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