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How should spending cuts be done?


marharth

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Stop runaway Capitalism and trim the fat.

Not very specific...

 

That's because I wasn't taking the thread seriously. If I wanted to be descriptive, I could write you five paragraphs on the subject and all that jazz.

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End the pork system. Stop rewarding politicians for spending money on pointless things because it's their home state. Don't pay out to projects based on who's going to vote for you next round.
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End four wars.

 

Stop sending money to countries that hate us.

 

Stop sending money to countries that merely tolerate us, and don't even need it.

 

Stop spending money to rebuild things that we blew up earlier, because of the "war on terror". Wanna hide terrorists? Fine, we will expend the ordinance to blow up their bases of operation, and then we WON'T come in and spend billions rebuilding your country.

 

Stop giving tax breaks to folks from a specific region, when the immigrate here. It stinks of racial bias, and defeats the purpose of competition. Handing out advantages to new immigrants, gives them better opportunities than the folks that were born here.

 

End Tax breaks for "creating jobs in developing nations." Which translates literally to "MOVING jobs TO developing nations."

 

Do away with a fair few corporate subsidies. End corporate welfare.

 

Have a long hard look at the various projects, both military, and civilian, that are going on. If they are way over budget, and look like they are going to continue to be. Shut 'em down. ESPECIALLY those that aren't going to deliver what was promised in the first place.

 

End lifetime benefits for folks that serve in washington DC. Model it according to private industry. If you work there for 30 years, THEN you get some good retirement. Not after merely four years, and get a package that is better than anything the private industry offers, even after 50 years.....

 

That should do for a start.

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End four wars.

 

Stop sending money to countries that hate us.

 

Stop sending money to countries that merely tolerate us, and don't even need it.

 

Stop spending money to rebuild things that we blew up earlier, because of the "war on terror". Wanna hide terrorists? Fine, we will expend the ordinance to blow up their bases of operation, and then we WON'T come in and spend billions rebuilding your country.

 

Stop giving tax breaks to folks from a specific region, when the immigrate here. It stinks of racial bias, and defeats the purpose of competition. Handing out advantages to new immigrants, gives them better opportunities than the folks that were born here.

 

End Tax breaks for "creating jobs in developing nations." Which translates literally to "MOVING jobs TO developing nations."

 

Do away with a fair few corporate subsidies. End corporate welfare.

 

Have a long hard look at the various projects, both military, and civilian, that are going on. If they are way over budget, and look like they are going to continue to be. Shut 'em down. ESPECIALLY those that aren't going to deliver what was promised in the first place.

 

End lifetime benefits for folks that serve in washington DC. Model it according to private industry. If you work there for 30 years, THEN you get some good retirement. Not after merely four years, and get a package that is better than anything the private industry offers, even after 50 years.....

 

That should do for a start.

 

 

Fantastic. I'm voting for HEY YOU next year. Screw the politicians.

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Instead of cuts why don't we charge higher taxes for big corperations?
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Instead of cuts why don't we charge higher taxes for big corperations?

 

Because no amount of taxing or taxes will affect the soaring US debt or stop runaway spending. The Feds could take George Soros' entire stock portfolio (est $6420 million) and it would cover about an hour of US spending. Taxing won't address the spending or even make a dent.

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