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Originally Posted by BishopMVP
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.
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Honestly, yes I would like him to spell out what he'd cut and I do realize that it is generally not a good campaign strategy to announce cuts, which is really the fault of the American voters because they rarely call candidates out on this bullshit.
Right now the only tried and true conservative principle that I'm seeing from Rubio is promising the moon and stars but only paying for the moon. It's easy to look principled when you can promise to spend money on whatever looks good to you w/o getting into the details of how to pay for it. This kind of mentality is part of the reason the deficit never gets fixed.