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Much more cutting is required to balance the budget.
by charcircuit 1y ago
Much more cutting is required to balance the budget.
- CSMastermind 1y agoThere's simply no balancing the budget without both raising taxes and cutting social services. We should, of course, be efficient with our money. Any dollar we can save is a good thing but until I hear someone talk about raising taxes and cutting social spending I'm not going to take serious the idea that we're trying to balance the budget.
- c0nducktr 1y agoWhat social spending do you want to cut?
- CSMastermind 1y agoSocial security, Medicare, and Medicaid are ~60% of the federal budget. Interest payments are another ~15% and there's no way to reduce those. You could cut literally every penny of the rest of the budget, including all of defense, all of transportation, all of education, and every single program being discussed here. We'd still have a deficit. So unless a politician is going to propose a way to spend less on those three programs, then they're not talking seriously about reducing our deficit.
- watwut 1y agoThey are cutting social spending and healthcare spending. It wont offset tax cuts for the rich, but the cruelty is the point and watching people suffer is fun to republicans.
- wvenable 1y agoPenny wise but pound foolish.
- pjc50 1y agoBut there's always money for a war.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoLol did you see the proposed budget? Balancing it was never the intention.
- const_cast 1y agoThis administration has zero plans to balance the budget. Anyone who ever thought so was, and is, frankly, an idiot.