This is up near the top of the list of DemoPublican Propaganda ploys.
The trick/logic-befuddlement itself is so often used that we need to keep ourselves, and teach our children, to forever be watching out for it: SUBSTITUTE ONE WORD FOR ANOTHER.
A second technique, almost indistinguishable and absolutely a kissing cousin, is: SUBSTITUTE ONE *MEANING* FOR ANOTHER. The example of "inflation" is a great one and it has been so successful.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon