It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
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It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
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Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#2The title of the article says “easy”, while the text says “straightforward”.
Those are not synonyms.
Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#3The title of the article says “easy”, while the text says “straightforward”. Those are not synonyms.
Collins dictionary disagrees:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur...
and
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur...
They are each their others 2nd top synonyms
Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
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Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#5We regularly have the same here in the UK - "let's go after £1.7b in benefits fraud" but never "lets go after the £120b in taxes that are evaded". We lost more to COVID fraud than we did to benefits fraud, but seem to have just written that off largely - it even seems to have been committed by people in our House of Lords.
I am all for doing both these things - but let's go after the biggest prize(s) first.
Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#6The title of the article says “easy”, while the text says “straightforward”. Those are not synonyms.
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Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#7You idiot! You fool! You're supposed to enrich the robber barons.
Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#8The title of the article says “easy”, while the text says “straightforward”. Those are not synonyms.
Collins dictionary disagrees: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur... and https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur... They are each their others 2nd top synonyms
The article even uses them interchangeably between the title and the first paragraph
Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#9The title of the article says “easy”, while the text says “straightforward”. Those are not synonyms.
I agree that the spectrum of "effort needed" is not the same as "clarity of process", and ideally people wouldn't blur the lines... But it happens anyway.
For example: Moving a heavy exercise-weight one mile in a straight line through an open field field is very straightforward... but not necessarily easy.
Re: It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget
#10Not like that