As Deficit Soars Toward $1 Trillion, Congress Shrugs and Keeps Spending (how much, cost)

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

It has everything to do with taxes, congress doesn't want to give out bad news. They should be raising taxes to cover the deficits instead of cuts. They don't have any credible cuts to balance the budget. So where are the cuts, DOD, Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security because without any cuts in those areas there will never be a balanced budget.

Instead of sound fiscal decisions we are back to supply side nonsense creating an even larger deficit.

It is both. If you can not balance the budget, then you should not cut taxes. It is very simple.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by nononsenseguy

Why do you want to cut aid for Israel? Why would we cut help for our friends? But we send aid to our enemies ...that's what we're talking about here ...not Israel! Are you an anti-Semite?

Do friends spy on each other?

Israel Won

[PilgrimsProgress]

I think Trump haters should do the patriotic thing and donate the money they'll be saving from the tax cut back to the US Treasury.

Yeah, when hell freezes over.

[jimj]

Originally Posted by JimRom

I don't know how anyone in their right mind votes for either of the two major parties. Yet, people continue to do so.

^^^^This is the most honest opinion yet.^^^^

[T-310]

Originally Posted by dothetwist

Where are those fiscal conservatives?? Where are those deficit hawks??
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b0ae5dd3a89d

If spending is cut, liberals will howl that the poor are starving, if spending is not cut liberals will howl about the deficit.

This thread is a classic example of the rampant hypocrisy of the left.

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by Kracer

Obama did nothing to bring the US economy back from its normal low cycle. He held a boot on the neck of the US economy. His stimulus money still lies unspent, cash for clunkers was a fail, he made banks that did not need loans take loans, he screwed GM shareholders, he lied about shovel ready jobs. the only thing Obama did to help the economy was to leave at the end of his 2nd term.

If that's true then why did Obama create more jobs during his last year in office than Trump did his first year in office?

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by T-310

If spending is cut, liberals will howl that the poor are starving, if spending is not cut liberals will howl about the deficit.

This thread is a classic example of the rampant hypocrisy of the left.

Fund what you spend.

It is not complicated.

We have chosen to reduce the funding, and spend on borrowed money. That is a problem.

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by T-310

Defund the UN, eliminate foreign aid and get rid of welfare.

It wouldn't make a noticeable dent in what the US pays out in interest yearly on it's debt. In 2017 the US paid $458,542,287,311.80

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/...ir_expense.htm

[tickyul]

US Dollar = fiat-currency, print and/or electronically-allocate AS MUCH as they want..........no problem.

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

If that's true then why did Obama create more jobs during his last year in office than Trump did his first year in office?

What real jobs did he create? Did Obama create jobs people could live on? You're in a borough of NYC and the vacancy rate for commercial sites has surpassed the 20% mark and you think high paying jobs have returned? Really?