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Comment by yardie | Hacker News Reader

Lumping social security in with taxes? You must be very good with numbers.

I'll ignore the ad hominem.

Minus SS, it's still less than 21% of total federal spending.

If you're going to concede that point (ss) then the same applies to Medicare. This completely destroying your argument coincidentally.

It doesn't. Defense spending is not 60% of the "budget". Further, it's not a large component of the total federal budget.

    > I'll ignore the ad hominem

Insulting someone's intelligence is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.