Mike_Hunt

Let's do a thought experiment. What happens when someone from the GOP proposes cuts to the budget or any program? How do the Dems reply? a) That's a good idea, let's work out a plan. b) You are cruel and want to push all the grandmothers off a cliff.

Of course, the Dems have no agency. Got it.

The main drivers are defense, social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Social Security has run permanent deficits since 2010. Medicare and Medicaid are money pits. You would figure that 15 years later, the Democrats might have taken a stab at dealing with Social Security.

They did this over the past 50 years. The current spending levels are 22% of the GDP. All balanced budgets have one number in common. Spending is less than 19% of the GDP.

Congress has been moving power to the executive branch for some time now.

It's funny how lefties suddenly hate taxes. Have you asked yourself how the POTUS has the power to impose tariffs?

It's remarkable that you don't understand the Dems built a government that we can't afford.

That's not entirely accurate. The budget surplus was due to the dot-com boom, which went bust in 2000.

To say one's retirement is going up, someone's retirement is going up in smoke at this point, is a little premature. The marks have been creeping back up. Remember, the markets also took a dump under Joe Biden. Stop being a drama queen.

I'd like to see congress pass no tax on social security.

I'm here to read the posts from the triggered lefties.

What's your idea of a portfolio to deal with the reset?

I'm not a fan of the weak dollar for the sake of exports.

They spent 60 billion for one 1 billion in revenue. What's a leftie ROI for you.

IRS Crackdown Nets Enough Revenue To Fund the Government for 90 Minutes The Biden administration's $60 billion expansion of the IRS has netted $1 billion in new revenue so far. https://reason.com/2024/07/11/irs-crackdown-nets-enough-revenue-to-fund-the-government-for-90-minutes/

That includes spending at 22 percent of the GDP.

Let me tell you what I found. The CBO projects the 2025 deficit to be 1.8 trillion.

This is a made-up number to justify more pork spending.

You bla bla bla all you want. The Federal government needs to take a hatchet to the federal budget.

They need to cut two trillion from the federal budget. It requires a hatchet.

Do you know if the OP said anything noteworthy?

We are doomed, I say. Doomed. The world is going to end.

Just admit it, you can't afford to travel.

This goes both ways.

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