Pretty sure no one will block me. I’m delightful.
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Had to click on this to read your post
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It’s all in a day’s work for a Christian.
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No. I want you to read and post better so people don’t have to spend so much time explaining things to you.
Just… wow. Brb, going to go vote in a Dem primary for Hillary. She would be better in every way than Warren. HRC is rising in the polls too.
$26 Trillion…
I agree - but she’s doing it all wrong. She should say let’s spend it, but instead of raising taxes, we’ll just borrow the money. Then she’ll have every Republican on board - because deficits don’t matter.
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It’ll be way easier if she just puts it in the defense budget and says we’re defending ourselves against other countries by way of bumping up our citizens.
I’ve never seen a defense increase bill that doesn’t give the GOP one helluva rager.
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Fiscal madness, MMT, Democrats and Republicans, pretend money. Name a better combo.
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I’ve said this before. If I was running I’d promise everything under the sun. People simply do not care about the details and it can only hurt you as a candidate. I couldn’t do it because I’m not slimy enough.
We just elected a dude who essentially had zero details about how he was going to do anything. Just promised great things over and over again no details about how it would happen period let alone be paid for.
It’s impossible to spend too much on the military. I don’t care if we spend more than double the rest of the world combined.
Do you hate the troops? Do you think freedom is free? Do you want us to be bombed?
If you said no to all three why even look at defense spending?
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Exactly. Imagine rolling all entitlement spending into the defense budget. The GOP would immediately enter a feedback loop, divide by zero, and we’d get to see some hella fireworks.
In order to ensure a healthy population that can perform in various armed services branches the dod demands all health related costs to individuals under the age of 18 to be free.
Might have worded it poorly but one could surely make an argument that healthy individuals are paramount to the defense of the nation. I may remember it wrong but I believe at one point the south was having issues meeting recruitment goals because people were in poor condition.
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You’d still run into the massive fiscal problem in healthcare. The NHS spends a plurality of its budget on treatment for the elderly. Dementia and related mental issues are increasingly causing it to buckle at the seams.
Guaranteeing healthcare to under 20’s is basically free by comparison. Hell, I’m sure you could get 99% of insurance companies to agree to that.
Edit: I also enjoy you yanks thinking this issue will disappear even if you have the most Cadillac, free at source, healthcare system. We’ve been arguing about the NHS for 70 years.
The U.S. Federal Budget for FY 2020 is $4.7 trillion.
$2.8 trillion in mandatory spending which includes Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Created by previous acts of Congress, untouchable by president. ~60%
$1.4 trillion in discretionary spending that includes ~ $1BB in military/security.
Interest payment on national debt is $479 billion. ~10%
But yeah GOP.
Bloomberg in race according to evening news
MAGA.
4 more years.
Don’t SS taxes collected cover SS costs? So cutting SS would mean no more SS deductions from paychecks so we would still have a deficit. I’m no mathmagician so maybe my maths is off.
Also, military spending is close to one trillion dollars.
It’s all untouchable by the President. Congress makes those laws.
But the GOP runs on changing those numbers above - but never does, once elected.
I’m only half joking about Warren’s approach. Seriously - as long as someone says let’s put this policy on the national credit card, who can now credibly say “we can’t afford this program”…?
I’ll give Warren credit for this - her idea is absurd, but kudos for being more fiscally conservative than the GOP. Her plan may be out there, but at least she combines it with “if we enact it, we should pay for it.”
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