Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security and Medicaid

allpurpleallgold

His 2020 budget cuts all three.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

allpurpleallgold

*medicare

HillsboroDuck

allpurpleallgold said:

*medicare

Brian Kelly thought the original poast was accurate

2001400ex

And cutting 15% from farmers.

So millionaires and fortune 500 companies get a tax break so the poor, elderly and famers get benefits cut.

Bold strategy cotton.

Sledog

2001400ex said:

And cutting 15% from farmers.

So millionaires and fortune 500 companies get a tax break so the poor, elderly and famers get benefits cut.

Bold strategy cotton.

Trump must have cut up your check book!

SFGbob

allpurpleallgold said:

His 2020 budget cuts all three.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

Only in Washington is a budget that increases every year a "cut"

Btw, you've got to love how the same people who were just slamming Trump for the deficit are now crying about budget "cuts" that are really nothing more than a reduction in the growth of spending.

MikeDamone

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

SS and Medicare are difficult to cut without a transition plan. People have been taxed to pay for these with a reasonable expectation that it is part of their retirement ans as such, part of their retirement planning.

Swaye

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

RaceBannon

The fake budget hawks are out CAW

RaceBannon

2001400ex said:

And cutting 15% from farmers.

So millionaires and fortune 500 companies get a tax break so the poor, elderly and famers get benefits cut.

Bold strategy cotton.

Keep in mind that this ass clown is always complaining about people using talking points

2001400ex

SFGbob said:

allpurpleallgold said:

His 2020 budget cuts all three.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

Only in Washington is a budget that increases every year a "cut"

Btw, you've got to love how the same people who were just slamming Trump for the deficit are now crying about budget "cuts" that are really nothing more than a reduction in the growth of spending.

Bob, your employer was giving you 5% raises a year. They tell you that you only get 1% raises a year now. Would you accept that or think your compensation has been cut?

SFGbob

2001400ex said:

SFGbob said:

allpurpleallgold said:

His 2020 budget cuts all three.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

Only in Washington is a budget that increases every year a "cut"

Btw, you've got to love how the same people who were just slamming Trump for the deficit are now crying about budget "cuts" that are really nothing more than a reduction in the growth of spending.

Bob, your employer was giving you 5% raises a year. They tell you that you only get 1% raises a year now. Would you accept that or think your compensation has been cut?

Did I do anything to earn this 5% raise each year or do I get it simply for being able to fog a mirror? Also, am I an employee who has been bitching about the payroll costs at my job, only to then bitch when my employer does something about those costs?


If my annual raise was reduced to 1% per year I would say that my raise had been cut I wouldn't say that my salary had been cut. In 2008 this is exactly what happened at my job. There was no raise that year or the next. I never cried about how my pay had been cut, I just didn't get an increase for those two years.

Sledog

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

SFGbob

Sledog said:

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

Foreign Aid isn't that big a budget item. The real money is in the entitlement programs but there is no political will to go after them and as you can see, simply reducing the rate of their growth, will be called a "cut" by hacks like Hondo and Purple.

CirrhosisDawg

SFGbob said:

Sledog said:

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

Foreign Aid isn't that big a budget item. The real money is in the entitlement programs but there is no political will to go after them and as you can see, simply reducing the rate of their growth, will be called a "cut" by hacks like Hondo and Purple.

Agree. Increasing the retirement age should be an initial mutually agreeable solution to stop the hemorrhaging.

Sledog

SFGbob said:

Sledog said:

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

Foreign Aid isn't that big a budget item. The real money is in the entitlement programs but there is no political will to go after them and as you can see, simply reducing the rate of their growth, will be called a "cut" by hacks like Hondo and Purple.

Cuts add up. And we could certainly do some cutting.

UW_Doog_Bot

CirrhosisDawg said:

SFGbob said:

Sledog said:

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

Foreign Aid isn't that big a budget item. The real money is in the entitlement programs but there is no political will to go after them and as you can see, simply reducing the rate of their growth, will be called a "cut" by hacks like Hondo and Purple.

Agree. Increasing the retirement age should be an initial mutually agreeable solution to stop the hemorrhaging.

I also agree.

LebamDawg

if they take retirement age and reword it slightly to retirement death - that would save a ton of money

HHusky

SFGbob said:

Sledog said:

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

The real money is in the entitlement programs but there is no political will to go after them

Absolutely correct. And mall cop would squeal like a stuck pig if you cut any of his entitlements.

Raising taxes is inevitable. We could start now and reduce the pain.

RaceBannon

HHusky said:

SFGbob said:

Sledog said:

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

The real money is in the entitlement programs but there is no political will to go after them

Absolutely correct. And mall cop would squeal like a stuck pig if you cut any of his entitlements.

Raising taxes is inevitable. We could start now and reduce the pain.

It won't do anything but still

Cutting revenue would be another way to put raising taxes and I don't see how that helps

MikeDamone

HHusky said:

SFGbob said:

Sledog said:

Swaye said:

MikeDamone said:

Spending needs to be cut. Including military. Cuts to nearly every agency, if not eliminating some altogether are needed.

I'd start with 15% off the military budget for openers, and then trim significant chunks (25%+) off all entitlement programs and completely do away with useless shit like the National Endowment for the Arts. Oh yeah, and huge cuts to the Department of Education (lolwut?) and the EPA (FTG). There are probably tons of meaningless agencies that could be shuttered completely.

Cut 100% to the UN and 75% of foreign aid. Cut 100% of foreign aid to where they chant "death to America".

The real money is in the entitlement programs but there is no political will to go after them

Absolutely correct. And mall cop would squeal like a stuck pig if you cut any of his entitlements.

Raising taxes is inevitable. We could start now and reduce the pain.

We? You mean “we” should raise taxes on other people. Not you.