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> is a ridiculously plain falsity.

It's well known in government that if you don't spend all your budget (meaning you were successful), your budget gets cut.

It is indeed ridiculous, but true.

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Guess we're using different measures of "success" - in my book any govt program that nets more revenue than than it costs taxpayers or provides more value than it costs (harder to verify) (irs and usps respectively, for instance) is a "successful" program - Thus the irs is a "successful" govt program that is not getting its budget cut because it's successful, and socialist systems would still have an irs... That's kinda where I was coming from

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