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You could put the us military budget at zero, and you'd still have an unsustainable high public deficit. The fact of the matter is that welfare and welfare alo
by djbebs 4y ago
You could put the us military budget at zero, and you'd still have an unsustainable high public deficit.
The fact of the matter is that welfare and welfare alone is the highest expenditure by far, and any cuts anywhere else will be meaningless unless deep and permanent cuts are made to the welfare state.
- stuaxo 4y agoThat has already done that in the US. Maybe if healthcare was sorted, all those profits not going into the system could go back into peoples pockets and there would be space for a little more tax to pay for welfare. Give poor people money and they spend it, boosting the economy.
- nradov 4y agoHow much profit is there in the healthcare system as a percentage of the federal deficit?