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Conservatives: you want to see what your extremism brings? Look no further than Louisiana.
Clearly Bobby Jindal does not care about a balanced budget. Republicans should not be allowed to even talk about budgets, deficits, or debt (because they don't understand what they are or what causes them to fluctuate.)
Clearly Bobby Jindal does not care about a balanced budget. Republicans should not be allowed to talk or complain about budgets, deficits, or debt (because they don't understand what they are or what causes them to rise and fall.)
Which is pretty perplexing as they act like they know what businesses need, but they can't even balance a budget! Jindal came into office with a $1 billion dollar surplus. Every single year except for his first one he gave us a deficit. What the ....?!!!
Which is pretty perplexing as they act like they know what businesses need, but they can't even balance a budget! Jindal came into office with a $1 billion dollar surplus. Every single year except for his first one he gave us a deficit. What the ....?!!!
Republicans choose B. and all the deficits, debt, and financing of US factories in Asia that go with it. And while they fight for corporate tax cuts, they oppose middle class and small business tax cuts.
Both parties are guilty of this too. So many times we see both parties in power and preach how we need to balance the budget. It appears as if both parties are not capable of making cuts and just differ on how to spend money and how to use taxes on people.
You are given 60 days to cut whatever you have to to get things balanced again. What would you cut? What would you keep? Why? I want answers here instead of usual political talking points.
Both parties do not preach about balancing the budget. Only Republicans do that. The only time you ever hear a Democrat politician talk about fiscal responsibility is so that they can either A) reduce the military and spend the money on something else or B) raise taxes. You never, ever hear Democrats talk about budgets and spending with fiscal responsibility as the goal in and of itself. Only Republicans do that.
As to what to lower? Everything. Across the board cuts. It's like they said in Aliens "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure." Targeted cuts are just an excuse to make no cuts as it opens up the process to lobbying and loopholes. Every dollar that gets spent goes to someone, and that someone is going to do whatever they can to make sure that dollar isn't one of the cuts. The only way to make sure that cuts actually happen is to cut everything.
And no, that isn't going to mean that vital national security interests go unguarded and it isn't going to mean that children will starve on the streets. By cutting everything across the board, you ensure that no one thing needs to take a significant hit. We'll still be able to afford bullets for our soldiers' guns and still be able to afford social security checks for our senior citizens.
What to cut!
1. All Foreign Aid.
2. Cut Defense spending by 25%.
3. Stop corporate welfare.
4. End the Department of Education
5. Dissolve the department of Homeland Security into pre 9-11 departments.
6. End the Drug war and allocate those tax dollars to treatment only.
7. Free all none violent drug offenders.
8. End subsidies (agriculture)
This could possibly cut half a trillion from the budget. There are a lot of problems with spending and how we tax. The income tax and payroll taxes should be abolished. It is unamerican to tax labor. Despite all this the main problem is the cost/spending of healthcare and social security. Medicade/Medicare and Social Security is a ticking time bomb. We screwed this up royally and I don't know how they find a way in the beltway to fix it.
What to cut!
1. All Foreign Aid.
2. Cut Defense spending by 25%.
3. Stop corporate welfare.
4. End the Department of Education
5. Dissolve the department of Homeland Security into pre 9-11 departments.
6. End the Drug war and allocate those tax dollars to treatment only.
7. Free all none violent drug offenders.
8. End subsidies (agriculture)
This could possibly cut half a trillion from the budget. There are a lot of problems with spending and how we tax. The income tax and payroll taxes should be abolished. It is unamerican to tax labor. Despite all this the main problem is the cost/spending of healthcare and social security. Medicade/Medicare and Social Security is a ticking time bomb. We screwed this up royally and I don't know how they find a way in the beltway to fix it.
Healthcare is easy to fix. Death panels. Sadly the Republicans tarnished that one to the point where its a non-starter now.
Republicans won't take that money from defense corporations.
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3. Stop corporate welfare.
Republicans won't allow that.
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4. End the Department of Education
Democrats won't allow that.
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5. Dissolve the department of Homeland Security into pre 9-11 departments.
6. End the Drug war and allocate those tax dollars to treatment only.
7. Free all none violent drug offenders.
Neither party will allow that.
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8. End subsidies (agriculture)
Republicans won't allow that.
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This could possibly cut half a trillion from the budget. There are a lot of problems with spending and how we tax. The income tax and payroll taxes should be abolished. It is unamerican to tax labor. Despite all this the main problem is the cost/spending of healthcare and social security. Medicade/Medicare and Social Security is a ticking time bomb. We screwed this up royally and I don't know how they find a way in the beltway to fix it.
Other than that great post and you (might) have my vote if you ran for president. Only problem is you will need $900 million dollars in campaign funds to run.
Republicans won't take that money from defense corporations.
Democrats won't allow that.
Neither party will allow that.
Republicans won't allow that.
Other than that great post and you (might) have my vote if you ran for president. Only problem is you will need $900 million dollars in campaign funds to run.
Chad.
This is what's wrong with America in a short version. Yes, I know the stuff he quoted isn't showing
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