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> The judges who provide the last, best hope of constraining the President and the richest man in the world face a historic wave of threats. The role of the ju

by bArray 2y ago

> The judges who provide the last, best hope of constraining the President and the richest man in the world face a historic wave of threats. The role of the judges is not to contain the President. It's exactly this idea where each department think that it's their role to stop the President which has lost them their job. You cannot operate a government successfully where large parts of it are actively trying to sabotage you. What President Trump is trying to achieve is to take politics out of the permanent unelected state. Additionally, at the same time he is trying to find cost savings, because US debt is out of control [1]. The UK [2] and many other Countries are in the same boat. US spending on national debt is about $1 trillion a year [3], and it raises about $4.4 billion a year in revenue [4]. This is okay, as long as the US maintains growth [5]. Encase it wasn't obvious by now, we are scheduled for a massive economic downturn, and it is extremely prudent to reduce spending so that the US can still afford interest payments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Debt_to_GDP.webp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_Debt_as_percentage_of_GDP.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_Debt_as_percentage_of_... [3] https://www.pgpf.org/article/what-is-the-national-debt-costing-us/ https://www.pgpf.org/article/what-is-the-national-debt-costi... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/media/File:2023-federal-budget-breakdown.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

throwaway11112 2y ago
>>Op argues that some idiot is trying to undo dept "Find cost savings" by posting graphs of same idiot pushing dept into explosive leaps higher during their previous term.
AnimalMuppet 2y ago
> The role of the judges is not to contain the President. The role of judges is to maintain the rule of law under the constitution. If the president is outside that, the role of judges is to contain the president, just as it is their role to contain anyone else who is outside it.
- bArray 2y ago
  Sure, but there is a lot of interpretation to be done (hence the need for a judge) - and at the point where judges see their role as interpreting the law maximally in favour of stopping the president, then something is wrong.
cloverich 2y ago
The US debt is out of control in large part from Trump himself. He cut taxes without cutting expenses. He needs to either put the taxes back, or cut something real (medicare, social security, military). And thats just to stop the bleeding. But based on his current trajectory, hell continue his pennywise strategy and just like last time, will raise the debt more than his predecessor.
- bArray 2y ago
  Simplistically it looks like that, but the US (or any other Country) never used to tax so much. The idea is to go back to a time of high GDP growth and lower taxes. Part of that is spending reduction (i.e. inspecting each arm of the government), and another part is growth hacking. Another thing to remind ourselves of is that we don't want politicians to make decisions purely from market reactions to policy.

by bArray 2y ago

throwaway11112 2y ago

>>Op argues that some idiot is trying to undo dept "Find cost savings" by posting graphs of same idiot pushing dept into explosive leaps higher during their previous term.

AnimalMuppet 2y ago

> The role of the judges is not to contain the President. The role of judges is to maintain the rule of law under the constitution. If the president is outside that, the role of judges is to contain the president, just as it is their role to contain anyone else who is outside it.

bArray 2y ago
Sure, but there is a lot of interpretation to be done (hence the need for a judge) - and at the point where judges see their role as interpreting the law maximally in favour of stopping the president, then something is wrong.

cloverich 2y ago

The US debt is out of control in large part from Trump himself. He cut taxes without cutting expenses. He needs to either put the taxes back, or cut something real (medicare, social security, military). And thats just to stop the bleeding. But based on his current trajectory, hell continue his pennywise strategy and just like last time, will raise the debt more than his predecessor.

bArray 2y ago
Simplistically it looks like that, but the US (or any other Country) never used to tax so much. The idea is to go back to a time of high GDP growth and lower taxes. Part of that is spending reduction (i.e. inspecting each arm of the government), and another part is growth hacking. Another thing to remind ourselves of is that we don't want politicians to make decisions purely from market reactions to policy.