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What happened to debt reduction and cutting spending?
It went out the window with GOP / Trump spending hikes. The only thing they wont spend money on is the welfare of American citizens, and people have paid into these programs all their lives so they could one day retire. My tax burden went up over 20%.
It went out the window with GOP / Trump spending hikes. The only thing they wont spend money on is the welfare of American citizens, and people have paid into these programs all their lives so they could one day retire. My tax burden went up over 20%.
You are paying more towards the debt. Hopefully you feel better based on your sentiments from the other thread.
Anyone who read the few sentences that MotherJones wrote would have noticed they offered no links or real information- just more Orange Man Bad!!!
This is what PolitiFact says ... and they are certainly not Orange Man Fans.
” It’s impossible to apportion how much of that is Medicaid because we don’t know how states will spend their new grant," Goldwein said. "But I think it’s somewhat misleading to suggest Medicaid is being cut by $1.4 trillion when a large chunk of that money is really being reprioritized rather than eliminated."
The proposed Medicare savings would have meant little to no change for beneficiaries, according to Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
Trump’s budget would have reduced reimbursement rates for services, lowering the overall cost. The lower rates would not have changed the care received by people on Medicare, he said. Rather, it would force providers to charge the government less for services.
"The Medicare cuts were for the most part reductions to payments to providers, and that latter category is something members of Congress from both parties have been working on for decades," Van de Water said. "The reason the U.S. spends more on health care is that we end up paying much more to providers than other countries."
Pay attention here .... no cuts to care or service to Seniors.
Cuts are to corporations... you know, those filthy Rich that Leftists complain about.
This is mostly about lowering Drug costs- I’m now getting Prescription coverage and other services I didn’t get last year. Trump is focused on lowering costs, not reducing service or care. Don't get suckered in an Echo Chamber.
Reality is that the Leftists done want to “cut Medicare” - they want to end it and replace with an unknown Pie in the Sky new program. Medicare is on life support now, imagine what the Leftists will do when they take it away and go to a new unproven system.
Haven’t we already done that with the failed ObamaCare?
I think they are trying to encourage people to retire elsewhere by making it financially impossible to retire here.
Lol--so true! And it is working.
Costa Rica, Panama, Portugal--all low COL retirement areas and come with the double big bonus of not having to listen to the nutjob in the WH.
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