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What spending cuts do the Freedom Caucus members want?
I have always been specificAnyone who wants to cut government spending needs to be specific about which programs he wants to cut or eliminate. Every item in the budget has a powerful constituency to protect it. The largest and most expensive programs are the post popular.
Can't, the extra spending is to cover the cost of Biden inflationHow about merely cutting the spending back to 2019 levels?....Wasn't a $5 trillion gubmint immense and costly enough for you?
Cut them all
I hope you are being serious because I agreeThe Circumcision Principle.
There is absolutely nothing you can't take 1p% of the top of.
I would need to know what the US government specifically spends it's money on. So for example, in the link it says 13% on education, what's the breakdown on that, or on any of them? Does the spending include the cost of sandwiches at meetings? I would scrap that cost.Anyone who wants to cut government spending needs to be specific about which programs he wants to cut or eliminate. Every item in the budget has a powerful constituency to protect it. The largest and most expensive programs are the post popular.
The voters would not approve of that. On the other hand, for years public opinion surveys have indicated popular support for higher taxes on rich people.I have always been specific
Cut them all
Cut every spending program by the same amount
Make the cuts relatively small - such as 1% less than the program got the year before
But with no exceptions, everyone shares the pain
Sorry HectorThe voters would not approve of that. On the other hand, for years public opinion surveys have indicated popular support for higher taxes on rich people.
poll + taxes + rich - Google Search
The national debt only became a problem when Ronald Reagan cut the top tax rate from 70% to 28%.
During President Carter's last year in office in 1980 the national debt was $908 billion. Reagan, Bush II, and Trump cut taxes while raising military spending. During Trump's last year in office, 2020 the national debt had grown to $27,748 billion.
US National Debt by Year
Republicans are using the rise in the national debt for which they are responsible in order to try to cut popular domestic spending programs.
You are right about my preferences, but many agree with em.Sorry Hector
You want more socialism and I want less
www.dataforprogress.org
Capitalism creates the goods and services that socialists want to redistributeYou are right about my preferences, but many agree with em.
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Democratic Socialism and Socialism Are Increasingly Salient Among Democrats
By David Guirgis and Kirby Phares
Democrats hold more positive views of democratic socialism than capitalism
Our polling finds that while capitalism remains the preferred political ideology among likely voters overall, Democrats are especially receptive to the politics and values of democratic socialism and socialism.
Democratic Socialism and Socialism Are Increasingly Salient Among Democrats
Democratic voters are more closely aligned with democratic socialism and socialism than with capitalism, though capitalism retains strong topline support.
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I do not want the government to won everything. I do want the U.S. economy and government to move in socialist directions. All this would require would be a return to and a continuation of New Deal policies. It would mean strong labor unions, a high minimum wage, and a well financed public sector of the economy paid for by steeply progressive taxation.
As I have demonstrated,m there is majority support for these policies.
All funding for the Department of Education should be stopped and each state should have authority over their Education.
Then we don't need the DOE.Each state is already free to reject federal funding and the strings that go with it so they have total authority over their Education.
Did someone tell you different?
WW
Then we don't need the DOE.
What spending cuts are the 19 members of the House Freedom Caucus wanting from Speaker Johnson and the GOP? Perhaps some of the cuts they want are reasonable and justifiable, but I don't know what these folks are all about.
WASHINGTON – House lawmakers abruptly went home a day early partially due to a familiar sight for the House Republican conference: a rebellion from the lower chamber’s most conservative lawmakers.
The quick departure came just one day after passing a short-term stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown.
Some 19 Republicans, mostly comprised of members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, tanked a procedural vote Wednesday morning. The procedural vote – referred to as a rule vote – has traditionally passed along party lines regardless of any member’s support or opposition to the bill’s rule.
House conservatives, however, have broken that precedent multiple times this year, illustrating how unwieldy the deeply divided GOP majority is for newly installed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
Hard-right lawmakers shot down the rule vote this time around partly out of retaliation for Johnson’s funding plan – referred to as a continuing resolution – that cleared the House Tuesday. Those members have clamored for past months that any funding legislation include deep spending cuts, but Johnson’s bill was considered “clean” for retaining government funding at current levels.
Among their other grievances was opposition to a slate of amendments on one of the 12 appropriations bills needed to fund the government long-term.
“There’s certainly a concern with the bill itself in addition to concern relative to what happened with the (continuing resolution) yesterday,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a member of the Freedom Caucus who voted against the rule.
Chair of the Freedom Caucus, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., contended that he and his conservative colleagues killed the rule vote out of “good faith” in pursuit of conservative policy wins.
House abruptly heads home early after conservatives retaliate over Johnson's government funding plan
House lawmakers abruptly went home after conservative hardliners retaliated over House Speaker Mike Johnson's continuing resolution.www.yahoo.com
You are right about my preferences, but many agree with em.
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Democratic Socialism and Socialism Are Increasingly Salient Among Democrats
By David Guirgis and Kirby Phares
Democrats hold more positive views of democratic socialism than capitalism
Our polling finds that while capitalism remains the preferred political ideology among likely voters overall, Democrats are especially receptive to the politics and values of democratic socialism and socialism.
Democratic Socialism and Socialism Are Increasingly Salient Among Democrats
Democratic voters are more closely aligned with democratic socialism and socialism than with capitalism, though capitalism retains strong topline support.
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I do not want the government to won everything. I do want the U.S. economy and government to move in socialist directions. All this would require would be a return to and a continuation of New Deal policies. It would mean strong labor unions, a high minimum wage, and a well financed public sector of the economy paid for by steeply progressive taxation.
As I have demonstrated,m there is majority support for these policies.
The suppression of zero point is going to blow up as the greatest criminal scandal in human history.
- Fire Every 3 and 4 star general (Unless they are extra terrestrials) and reveal the true extent of the Space Program and all research on propulsions systems and Zero Point Energy
The sooner, the better. The federal education system and colleges are full of trash.
OK, write your legislator and let them know.
Then tell your school systems how to figure out how to provide an education with no federal funds for Title I and Special Education students (where most of K-12 federal funding goes).
Then tell colleges they need to tell students that there will be no applicable student loans in the schools post-secondary community colleges, colleges, and Universities including vocational training schools.
If you get enough states to go with it, Ed Department will go away.
WW
Communism does not prove that socialism does not work. It proves that a dictatorship is an inappropriate government for a command economy.
