Dschrute3
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Spending cuts? Ok. Let's start with this. Do we really need over 200 military bases on foreign soil? Do we need a $1 billion aircraft carrier when our enemy is driving around in 2001 Nissan pickup trucks, and is reduced to stealing our weapons in order to attack us? Do we need to spend more on our military than the next 7 nations combined, per year? Do we really need f-35 fighters at the cost of $299 million per plane? And final question. Do you really think that democrats would not vote in favor of cuts in the bloated military?
That's a fair assessment. But let's first acknowledge that Taxpayers aren't the problem, and that our Government is. Right now, Democrats won't even acknowledge that spending cuts have to happen to reduce the Debt.
We first have to at least agree that spending cuts need to happen. And we're not there yet. So that being the case, i'm all good with folks keeping more of their hard-earned income. Why toss more of your income into the Government Black Hole? Doesn't seem logical at all.
When the GOP passes a tax reform bill that adds $1 1/2 trillion to the debt, and at the same time increase spending on the military, I can not take anything they have to say about debt reduction seriously.
Cut Government spending. Until that happens, the Debt can't be reduced.
Republican tax-cuts just passed will increase our debt by 1.5 Trillion fucking dollars and here you are like good little rightwinger tool pushing “only spending matters to budgets” lunacy.
This is why our deficits are not going away - left is ready to deal, but nobody is home on the other side of the table.
Taxpayers aren't the problem. Government is.