Food stamps & welfare, staples of Republican spending.🤣🤣
There is your increase.
Compared to what? A majority of government is fraud, which why it should be much smaller.
It means it’s ****ing wasteful spending. Why do we need to spend 50% more in 2023 than we did in 2019?
The vast majority of government dollars go to things you support. Guarantee it.
OK, but you guarantee the majority of government dollars go to things we all support? Wrong and your link didnt tell me that.
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It wasn't a real link. It was a failed joke. But there are plenty of polls out there that prove we actually support the spending that happens. Do you support SS? Do you support the military? Then you support the majority of government spending. Period.
The polls are useless until we pay for it. It just shows people like free shit. Raise taxes 25% and tell me how much people like their government.
Defense and social security are free shit? Give up your retirement and your protection, and we'll talk.
As it was originally organized, if that was still how SS was organized, the only needed spending "may" have been administration. The only reason that the country is being held hostage over double paying to bail out SS is because DC STOLE the funds that we paid into SS, to "repay it later" and we end up paying it back as a double tax penalty for not nuking (figuratively) DC years ago. And the beat goes on.
Why would I give up my retirement? I’d make 15% more income and would invest it without SS taxes.
Support those? Yes . I dont support most of the specific issues. We need to keep out of funding womens studies in other countries. Stupid wars we have no skin in. I'm sure the Democrats are making big money from the Ukraine mess. I'm not going deeper. How many billions in weapons did we leave in Afghanistan so we can now give Ukraine money to fight against?
Most of our money goes to retirees and the military. You want to cut? Cut. Make your proposals. Cutting trans rights won't make a tiny f*cking dent in the budget. But have at it.
Then someone better manage it better. The amount of free stuff is ridiculous. You seem to be on a one track mind. We waste so much money it isnt even funny. You could cut a third to half of government employees easily. I mean all the way not just federal. We have property taxes out of control with schools throwing money away for one example. Indiana implemented an at the time one year wheel tax yrs ago. Funny it still shows up every year on my plates.
To be clear, I’m on board cutting the military and SS. I’d raise the SS taxation limits and the age people receive it. I’d also cut back on the increases each year. The reality is this will never happen because old people vote. I’m not against SS in theory, but our government sucks. So we can’t have nice things. FDR set us on path of bankruptcy in the 30s, because humans are to selfish to do the right thing.
Then cut them. But that's not where the money goes. The money goes to SS benefits and military toys. You want to cut? Tell us where to cut. Don't put up fake targets. Cut where it really costs.
How am I going to cut them? Did I piss in your cheerios this morning?
Yeah . . . your post would have been more persuasive had you insisted on foregoing the PPP at the time it was issued. And now you want to forego clawing that back . . . OK, I can understand that.
Did any Democrat congressperson vote against the Cares Act?
I thought the point was fiscal responsibility.
You tell me. I Googled it, and found confusing stories like the GOP passing a measure they voted against previously . . . I gave up trying to make sense of it. I don't have the time right now.
There may have been one person that opposed the bill. It was a bipartisan failure. Which isn’t unusual
5, according to this:
thehill.com
Cares Act passed 419-6 in House. 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted no.5, according to this:
The five lawmakers who voted against $484B in coronavirus relief
Only four House Republicans and one Democrat bucked their party leaders and voted against a nearly half-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief package Thursday, a sign that lawmakers overwhelmingly rec…
I honestly don't remember what my position was on all the money that got handed out back then. Go ahead and claw back what you can for the PPP, I never said that couldn't happen but anything in the past, particularly something you have to claw back, is going to be a drip in the bucket compared to the baseline that was just set for the yearly budget.
No, for the way the federal government operates, that is functionally accurate. Now you can make the argument that they have the option to cut the budget at any time and that is completely true. However, I am 44 years old and I cannot ever remember a time in my life where the federal budget shrank. Without looking I am thinking that post WW2 we probably saw a decrease in federal spending but it has been increasing ever since then with an explosion of spending starting in the 1980's and then going into overdrive at the turn of the century.
