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Originally Posted by NobodyHere
I think actually finding a way to pay for these tax credits is extremely relevant. Having the government live within its means is a pretty good theoretical principle.
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We can argue about specifics elsewhere and I think my views are fairly clear on government spending, but either way during a debate isn't the time to be crunching numbers on specific budget plans. It's the time to be establishing/conveying your principles, and supporting the children of working families is the right answer, both in general and especially as a politician outside of anything but the most extreme fringe of the party. If you really need him to throw in a caveat that "he'd cut money elsewhere" to pay for it, fine, but Rand Paul was putting him in a specific position where he tried to make Rubio choose between the children of working families and "conservative principles", at which time the correct answer is to tell Paul he's wrong about what conservative principles are.