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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indulged this idea back in May: Source
If Social Security and Medicare are spared from cuts, then to get federal spending under 20 percent of GDP while holding defense spending at 4 percent of GDP, “all other programs — including Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, education, environmental protection, transportation, and SSI — would have to be cut by an average of 40 percent in 2016 and 57 percent in 2022.”
Consider what the Romney campaign, then, is saying:
If Romney is elected, then by his third year in office, every single federal program that is not Medicare, Social Security, or defense, will be cut, on average, by 40 percent.
That means Medicaid, infrastructure, education, food safety, road safety, the postal service, basic research, foreign aid, housing subsidies, food stamps, the Census, Pell grants, the Patent and Trademark Office, the FDA — all of it has to be cut by, on average, 40 percent.
If Romney tried to protect any particular priority, it would mean all the others have to be cut by more than 40 percent.Source
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indulged this idea back in May: Source
If Social Security and Medicare are spared from cuts, then to get federal spending under 20 percent of GDP while holding defense spending at 4 percent of GDP, “all other programs — including Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, education, environmental protection, transportation, and SSI — would have to be cut by an average of 40 percent in 2016 and 57 percent in 2022.”
Consider what the Romney campaign, then, is saying:
If Romney is elected, then by his third year in office, every single federal program that is not Medicare, Social Security, or defense, will be cut, on average, by 40 percent.
That means Medicaid, infrastructure, education, food safety, road safety, the postal service, basic research, foreign aid, housing subsidies, food stamps, the Census, Pell grants, the Patent and Trademark Office, the FDA — all of it has to be cut by, on average, 40 percent.
If Romney tried to protect any particular priority, it would mean all the others have to be cut by more than 40 percent.Source
Interesting.
If he wins I want him to cut those programs as well. I want this stupid Country to suffer if we let bigotry and racism win. I hope romney succeeds to dismantle the middle class. We all will have earned it
Kind of like his 'trickle down' theory, but in a bad way. States will bear the brunt of the expenses and state taxes will go up to compensate for the lost government revenue.
Kind of like 'trickle down', but in a bad way. States will bear the brunt of the expenses and state taxes will go up to compensate for the lost government revenue.
Don't think it's not already happening. And states that have no state income tax are raising their property tax rates and service rates all over.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indulged this idea back in May: Source
If Social Security and Medicare are spared from cuts, then to get federal spending under 20 percent of GDP while holding defense spending at 4 percent of GDP, “all other programs — including Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, education, environmental protection, transportation, and SSI — would have to be cut by an average of 40 percent in 2016 and 57 percent in 2022.”
Consider what the Romney campaign, then, is saying:
If Romney is elected, then by his third year in office, every single federal program that is not Medicare, Social Security, or defense, will be cut, on average, by 40 percent.
That means Medicaid, infrastructure, education, food safety, road safety, the postal service, basic research, foreign aid, housing subsidies, food stamps, the Census, Pell grants, the Patent and Trademark Office, the FDA — all of it has to be cut by, on average, 40 percent.
If Romney tried to protect any particular priority, it would mean all the others have to be cut by more than 40 percent.Source
Interesting.
Oh great so he's going to cut everything except three of the biggest drivers of debt. I also am highly skeptical that Romney would even propose such cuts.
Romney doesn't seem capable of the strength necessary to push through his proposals...
The cuts that would be required under the Romney budget proposals in programs such as veterans’ disability compensation, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for poor elderly and disabled individuals, SNAP (formerly food stamps), and child nutrition programs would move millions of households below the poverty line or drive them deeper into poverty.
The cuts in Medicare and Medicaid would make health insurance unaffordable (or unavailable) to tens of millions of people.
The cuts in non-defense discretionary programs — a spending category that covers a wide variety of public services such as elementary and secondary education, law enforcement, veterans’ health care, environmental protection, and biomedical research — would come on top of the deep cuts in this part of the budget that are already in law due to the discretionary funding caps established in last year’s Budget Control Act (BCA).Source
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soo...Back to the thread.
