But some think that made him look more authentic, as well as Bernie.
You keep mentioning Bernie Sanders. You've got to watch this! Ha ha.
lol, yeah Crowder is funny.
But addressing his serious points...
1. Dick Cheney said that deficits dont matter, right? So why are Republicans even arguing about this? Oh, yeah, because it is being used against a leftist proposal?
Now I happen to think that deficits do in fact matter, but I am really sick of the hypocrisy in how the issue is raised to oppose the other party's priorities and ignored for ones own priorities which is who it is used. This means deficits are little more than a rhetorical device for most people. So after 8 years of Bush/Cheney ignoring the national deficit, I find it harder to take GOP arguments seriously in this vein.
2. Though various groups have proposed different numbers and everyone argues over the details, take a step back for a moment. Does it really make sense to not give good preventive medical care for millions of citizens and both save more medical costs down the road and get more revenue from increased economic activity all so that millionaires and billionaires like Odom can spend more $75,000 nights at whore houses? There is an entertainment cost to the lives of the wealthy that is simply excessive in most cases or you wouldnt be reading about nit wits like Odom destroying themselves in excessive lifestyles.
So why not do everyone a favor and RAISE the taxes on the extraordinarily wealthy and use that money to fund needed things and make the difference with cuts elsewhere. How much money could the feds make to reduce the national debt buy auctioning off federal owned land west of the Mississippi River? Something like 80% of all that land is still owned by the federal government. And why not roll Medicaide and Medicare into any proposal for a national health care system? Why continue to pay for both? Leaving the national defense alone, but how many old bases are we maintaining where there is no longer a serious threat? You think Russia is about to invade Germany? Why not close the bases there? We can hit targets in IRaq from Kansas now days, so why do we need so many forward air bases in the UK and Japan? etc, there are plenty of places to seriously cut federal spending without making up fantasies like a 100% cut to national defense.
3. We could finance a lot of this by simply cutting corporate welfare. We could save over $150 billiona nnnually right there.
About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
So why are we kicking granny to the curb, to live out of a grocery cart, so we can give hundreds of billions to corporations that already pay next to nothing in taxes annually?
Corporate taxes back in the 1950s were 33% of all federal revenue, but now is less than 10%.
Bernie Sanders says tax share paid by corporations has fallen from 33% to 9% since 1952
And many corporations pay ZERO taxes.
15 Fortune 500 Companies Paid No Federal Income Taxes in 2014
If we took out all the corporate deductions and reformed the corporate tax code so that they were only paying 20% of the federal revenues instead of the 33% they used to pay, we would bring in an extra $270 million annually.
If you include the 23% drop in federal revenue share, over $500 billion and add tot hat the cost of corporate welfare of over $150 billion,
we have a federal windfall of over $650 billion given away to corporations each and every year.
Why are we leaving veterans living in the back alleyways of our country to starve in the cold while letting corporations feed off the tax money of our people?
This is a far more complex subject than Mr Crowder seems to be aware of, and I dont have too many firm ideas on what we ought to do, but I think trump and Rand Paul have some very good ideas so far. Trump I seem to recall wanted to remove the cap on social security taxes and PAul will negate the whole thing by rolling it into the general budget and have a 14% tax on all income over $50k.
But really this can be paid for, it is only a question of where do we think we benefit the people of this country more, by making sure that people are well cared for and have full opportunity to pursue their goals and dreams or by giving away literally hundreds of billions of our taxes to corporations?