The U.S. government is now more than $20 trillion in debt. We closed fiscal year 2017 with a $666 billion deficit—the second highest annual deficit of the last five years and a figure unheard of before the Obama stimulus. https://www.facebook.com/justinamash/posts/1672100376162695 …
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The success of this Congress in “building a safe, strong, and proud America” will depend not on how “well” Republicans and Democrats choose to overspend, but on whether they can resist the urge to do so.
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1: We should stop loving war so much. 2: Have you thought about single-payer healthcare and a universal basic income as cost (and bloat and bureaucracy) eliminating options?
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As in: Replace all non-healthcare welfare with a UBI. Distribute the cash through existing infrastructure like the Post Office. Healthcare bureaucracy is ~30% of cost. Single payer eliminates that & saves all of us money. Both drastically shrink the size of the government.
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Yeah but then poor people get stuff, and that’s against liberty or something who knows
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I know, right? Since property / street crimes are overwhelmingly committed by poor folk and people want to end crime, you'd think they do something about it...
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Umm... maybe you should have considered the whole spending within your means thing BEFORE you cut taxes.
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Why did you vote for tax cuts which increase the deficit then?!
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I don't get this talking point so many statists keep spouting. He's in favor of cutting taxes AND cutting spending, which would not increase the deficit. It is possible to be for both.
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I agree, but it's irresponsible to slash income before reigning in expenses. I'm not saying he's wrong to demand limited govt, I'm saying he's hypocritical about the deficit when his actions have directly led to an increase.
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Yet you voted for a tax bill that increases debt by $1.5 Trillion?
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didn't you vote for the tax cuts?
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Inb4 "you voted to increase the deficit by 1.5 trillion" bs
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He did tho
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There will be 1.5 trillion added to the deficit IF you're assuming there will be no spending cuts for literally 10 years lmao we're one month in
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Did he or didn’t he add to the deficit?
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But like Here’s the thing He did Cutting revenue adds to the debt Basic accounting
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........... If you keep spending more than you're earning. Basic accounting.
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And if you cut revenue Without cutting spending Which is what he did You add to the debt
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