They are not "Entitlements". They are EARNED BENEFITS. Stop using language that skews the debate in favor of right-wing conservatives. This is not right. @washingtonpost @nytimes @BostonGlobe @baltimoresun
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Replace the word “entitlements “ with tax cuts for those that don’t need them” to make a more accurate assessment.
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Who do you think pays the lion's share of taxes in this country and provides all the jobs whose employees also pay taxes? Financially speaking it makes no sense to blame the payers for a debt while exonerating the payees.
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I understand that it would be counterproductive to impoverish the rich to benefit the poor, but no one is suggesting that.
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And neither am I touting the eradication of entitlements. I suppose we must be measured for both policies. And in my opinion we are much more measured with taxing the rich than we are restraining entitlements. It is a widespread problem.
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No. It is tax cuts for the rich.
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Who do you think pays the lion's share of taxes in this country and provides all the jobs whose employees also pay taxes? Financially speaking it makes no sense to blame the payers for a debt while exonerating the payees.
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Cost of living in a country.
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What is the cost of living in a country?
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Really? What about the big tax give away?

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That's NOTHING compared to entitlements and it's even odds that the tax cut will create more revenue than it costs. The biggest revenue hits will be up front. Entitlements are sucking the life out of our budget and it's getting worse by the minute
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The treasury is borrowing more because of drastic decline in tax revenue.
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Again, that was expected to be the case at beginning..but tax cuts spur growth and economic activity which increases tax revenue. Historically speaking, CBO estimates of that increase have been woefully short. And inflation is FINALLY pushing 2% which has long been the Fed's goal
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No they don’t, comrade. And those entitlements are entitlements because we pay into them! They’re earned benefits!
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Sure we've paid into those "earned benefits" (those of us who actually work and pay taxes that is)...but we didn't pay in enough to sustain the gargantuan handouts to all of society and to constant stream of low wage immigrants and increased life expectancy. Something has to give
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Immigrants create more wealth and jobs than they take.
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So long as it's legal immigration and somewhat controlled that's true... but you can't flood a first world country that has generous benefits with third world educated immigrants and expect that it won't be very disruptive. There are limits on what can be sustained
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‘Government financed retirement’??? Do you know how SSI works?
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Entitlements that go to the richest - like write offs for carried interest, planes, golf courses, developers. What a load WSJ.
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