Originally Posted by AnotherPOV:
“Women started getting the vote so government expenditure started going up as women are majority of voters, and women wanted stuff.”
The first time this country had to introduce income tax was 1799 - 130 years before women got the vote. It was to pay for the Napolionic Wars. Government debt for the UK peaked in 1815, declining for a century until WWI when it again reached 200% of GDP - it again declined until WWII when it reached the same level after which it again declined to below 50% by 1970. Simply put any analysis of the facts show that your statement that expenditure started to increase when women got the vote - is not backed up by the facts - there is not even a correlation between woman getting the vote and increased expenditure.
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“As for Trump, wait till he is POTUS, and stop listening to the biased US MSM, and their dire predictions, no-one knows what kind of POTUS he'll be.”
I don't just rely on the mainstream press - certainly not the American Mainstream Press. I'm British, and while we do not know what kind of President he may be - we can look at what he says and make a judgement on that. Further as I said it is not just what the press say about him. It is
what he himself has said, and does - which shows he will be a poor a President. 52 years old and I have seen what a good President and a bad President would be. Trump is looking like a repeat of Nixon and most of us know what happened there.
Stop trying to shut people up who do not agree with you - engage in the arguments.