Why do the resident liberals avoid these threads, but jump all over Trump gicing a hat to the military.
They seem so concerned about shit that doesnt matter.
I got news for you libs, we are about 5-10 years from becoming Greece. What is YOUR plan? Just lay it out. Specifically, how do we get out of our debt crisis....leave all social justice out of it and stick to NUMBERS. Numbers dont see colors.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO AVOID BANKRUPTCY FROM OUT DEBT?
I am not a liberal, but I will tell you what the conservative solution to our debt is. I've laid it out many, many, many times on this forum.
1. I would eliminate the $1.4 trillion of tax expenditures we give away each year. That alone would not only balance the budget, it would provide a surplus which could be used to lower tax rates for EVERYONE, and pay down the debt. Once the debt was paid off, we could lower tax rates even more.
This would have the added benefit of entities earning identical incomes paying identical taxes.
Anyone opposed to this idea has no clue what being a conservative means. And they are innumerate.
Reagan proved this works way back in 1986.
Another serendipitous benefit of banning tax expenditures would be there would no longer be an incentive for special interests to bribe our politicians to put them in the tax code.
There needs to be an outright ban of tax expenditures. Codified into law.
Funnily enough, Republicans are the worst offenders of this corruption. Because they know the rubes are too stupid to catch on.
Every tax expenditure has to be offset by either tax rate increases or borrowing. And that is how we got to 22 trillion in debt.
2. I would raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages to 70, immediately, and index the age to 9 percent of the population going forward.
We are living far longer than our ancestors who established Social Security. We should be working longer. Common fricking sense.
There you go. Easy peasey!
