Not one to correct @SteveSchmidtSES, but when you say both parties have produced a $20 trillion debt, most people hear that as a spending issue. And, sure, America has a spending problem. But it's also a revenue issue, and only one party is working hard to lower revenues.
I agree with you at a high level. If we were in congress together I would be very flinty with the tax payer dollar and focused on spending. However, once the decision to spend is made you have to pay for it. We tax at about 18% of gdp and spend at 21%
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Where, what programs would you cut?
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On the spending side, I'm looking hard at where we spend most of our discretionary money. The military. We're already the top spender, we can afford to not only *not* increase spending, but to trim down in some reasonable ways.
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Republicans love to compare current tax cutting proposals to those that occurred under JFK, but they aren't the same. JFK cut rates from extremely high to still pretty high. We're not considering cutting from low to even lower. 1/
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They learned nothing from the last 40 years. Or from Kansas. Or, more accurately, they're just grifting from the system and being willfully ignorant. /2
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That’s a good looking and happy dog !
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The unwillingness to raise the gas tax is mind boggling.
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Agreed but this would primarily impact low income workers. Use tax seems a better way.
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I don’t need to pay pensions to one time congress members. How much did I save. Enough for one more golf trip?
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Total congressional compensation needs to be tied directly to the wages of the median voting aged American. Period.
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