Pay attention to the way your partner or spouse is framing an old argument that you keep having over and over again.

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We can see this backward framing of the issues, for example, in the debate over sequestration, where it is claimed that because taxes cannot rise further, spending must be cut -- without any examination of what purpose that government spending serves.

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