[icwhatudo]

But I think it's important to check your facts carefully before making accusations, because your whole argument loses credibility when chunks of it can quickly be proven false. It's very easy for political opponents to distract people from the main focus of your argument, when you give them piles of ammo with which to assail your credibility. I agree.

Was there anything I posted on this topic that was quickly proven false? Or slowly proven false? Or false at all?

[GovernmentShrinker]

It is extremely unlikely that this family was shelling out $40,000 a year for private school tuition. You asserted that they were. Now when it's challenged, you can't provide any evidence for your assertion. Look, I think it's great you made the effort. But please work on refining your technique. The socialist forces are gleefully pointing to these flawed specifics, to distract the populace from the main point -- which is that these government programs for "poor children" are already covering a lot of people who are clearly not in desperate straits, and hardly need to be expanded.

Instead of making unsupported specific assertions about the family's finances, the point could be better made by accepting their income level at face value, and pointing out that if their modest income wasn't already being taxed so heavily to support all the existing government medical care and disability programs, they would have been able to afford private medical insurance. Taxing middle income people to fund hand-out programs for middle income people is just sending money in circles, with government red tape and overhead costs reducing the amount that comes back around.