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 alanhdslPremium
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Phoenix, AZ | Tax here or there As someone else mentioned, although the Spanish-American War is paid for, there are always new wars to fund.
If you get rid of it, it means either other taxes will go up or (as the current administration wants) we'll borrow it and let the grandkids figure out how to pay it.
Cut spending? 2/3rds is military, Social Security, and Medicare. So what have the fiscal conservatives done to cut spending in those areas?
Military: Iraq, nuff said.
Medicare: Drug plan, the biggest expansion in Medicare spending in its history.
Social Security: Change plan crashed and burned. Even if enacted as planned, it would have cost more in the short term. | |
| said by alanhdsl:Cut spending? 2/3rds is military, Social Security, and Medicare. So what have the fiscal conservatives done to cut spending in those areas? Lumping military expenditures in with social transfer payments is an interesting twist. And since there are very few Democrats with a fiscal conservative tag, one can only assume you were refering to Republicans.
According to the latest BLS statistics »www.bls.gov/emp/empmacro08.pdf it would appear that military expenditures are 20% and dropping, and transfer payments are 45% and climbing. Which would you have those evil Republicans cut? And how much villification should they take for proposing said cuts? | | |
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