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Spending is spending. Whatever label you want to stick on it. Take the Federal Budget and just cut 10% out of everything. Somehow our country will survive without the government spending trillions of dollars it does not even have.
I have a similar solution for balooning healthcare costs. Just blow up 20% of the hospitals. Fewer hospitals = less money spent on healthcare. Gee, somehow, you know what, I think we'll survive, without so many wasteful hospitals. People just get too complicated with things sometimes.
I have a similar solution for balooning healthcare costs. Just blow up 20% of the hospitals. Fewer hospitals = less money spent on healthcare. Gee, somehow, you know what, I think we'll survive, without so many wasteful hospitals. People just get too complicated with things sometimes.
Yes, i agree Sandwich. Why not blow up a few public universities while we are at it lol
Agreed, so it is government spending that you were referring to. Okay, now that has been clarified. This is not remotely the point of my original post, but these threads develop a life of there own, so i'll follow up on your question rb.
What programs would you start cutting to get to a balanced budget?
They are exactly related. You assert that if we cut taxes for one group, another has to have their increased to make up the difference.
That is the kind of fuzzy math that the government relies on people using to keep robbing us blind. So let me spell it out. First you lower taxes on everyone. Then you cut spending on EVERYTHING. Every damn program that the govt cuts a check for we cut by 10% for a starter.
Why doesn't anyone in this country view tax breaks for what they are?
If you give one group in this country a tax break another group in this country has to make up the difference.
Let's be honest, we have two groups in this country, that pay for everything.
The rich and the middle class.
If the rich get a tax break, the middle class pays for it. It is welfare for the Rich
If the middle class gets a tax break, the rich pays for it. It is welfare for the Middle Class.
If the government pays for it, because they print more money, then we all get taxed via inflation.
Just how it works. Who do you think pays for these things?
Nonsense! Who is the government? We all are. Welfare is giving something to someone they have not earned. Allowing people to keep more of what they earn is good economics, it increases tax receipts because it increases economic activity.
How many people do you think receive government welfare checks? It's about 5 million. Three million of those are children. So, we have 2/3 of one percent of the population who are adults. Many of those can't work, and many more are single mothers raising children. That leaves a very miniscule number of people who are "lazy bums."
I don't know any lazy bums receiving government handouts. How many do you know?
i think more like 20 million plus food stamps section8 housing plus leap and free healthcare and i know hundreds of lazy bums. i worked for the state for 4 years helping these people. quit a good job out of disgust of the abuses.and the social workers were actually advertising trying to build thier caseloads to keep thier jobs
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