Well at least two of those trillions are one each for Obama and Biden in their first year giving their people some love. Don't think the R's ever did that
Republicans pitch tax cuts for corporations, the wealthy in 2025
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Remind me how many republicans voted for the inflation reduction act.
Also the build back better act.
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None. Now let’s do how many Republicans went back to their district and touted the dollars being spent for projects.
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Why not. Getting a share of the pork pie should be their objective once crap like that passes.
They were taking credit for stuff that was already being designated for projects X Y or Z…that they had nothing to do with directing the money towards their district, and in fact voted against despite knowing they’d see some of that money come their way.
And yet they are all out stumping in their districts touting the infrastructure and benefits that those bills have provided to their constituents....
Trump increased spending by $8.18 Trillion
Joe increased spending by $4.7 Trillion much of which was much needed pandemic and infrastructure related.
They both have spent quite a bit and I agree that the spending needs to be lowered. Something needs to be done with all the farm subsidies, military spending and hopefully we don't see another student loan forgiveness unless they find a way to cover free education to all (which they won't).
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If they want to cut spending, they ought to have a clause in those spending bills that if any representative votes against the bill, then their district won't get a dime out of the bill. That should save $Millions, or even $Billions.
the real drivers of the debt are not the discretionary spending that's always the target of political rhetoric...
it's SS and Medicare/Medicaid
but entitlement reform is hard and requires real work from our legislators to solve an existing problem...not just change the number behind a line item in a bill to slash funding
any discussion of debt reduction that doesn't include addressing the entitlement programs is not a serious discussion
we aren't $34T in debt in 2024 because of the $0.78T inflation reduction act 2 years earlier...anyone who brings that up but doesn't bring up all the non-discretionary spending is not a serious person...just regurgitating talking points they heard or saw somewhere else
Republicans have demonstrated no interest in addressing SS problems.
Only Democrats have put forth proposals on that - many of which do not solve the problem entirely, but do address and improve the issue.
Biden got drug price negotiations on Medicare, which are also a step in the right direction.
We aren’t in debt because of Medicare and Social Security either. We do have significant future liability but the programs aren’t yet in the red long term. Medicaid is of course a driver of debt currently. That 34t has nothing to do with Medicare or social security. Other social programs yes.
This has been the case ever since Nixon was President. However, it has always been the Democrats fault!
Even when Repubbers ran the show in Congress!
She's "not a MAGA", but she "had no choice" but to vote for Trump.
And it's imperative that we curb-stomp them gays and trannies down, because they are the ones destroying 'Merica, yo!!!!
LoLCan we safely assume now that you must be on Trump's VP short list?
I already turned it down.
Joe’s here everyone! Who wants to argue with Joe today?
Gotta do it before 4PM…sundowners starts early for Joe.
No tax increases until spending is under control. It's at every level of the government from fed, state to even local counties. Counties revenues double the assessed values with no levy rate reductions. Talk about leaches. They definitely go the memo that if we don't spend it we won't get it in next year's budget. Need to clean house from all these governments.
FUNFACT: city, county, state and federal budgets need to increase, as their communities continue to gain population...
FunFact:
Increased population is supposed to come with an increase in the number of participating taxpayers...
Was reported today that Trump said the government is wasting too much money and he will cut spending while giving the rich more tax breaks. Trump complains a lot about the state of our economy without stating any solutions. Says he will solve the Ukraine war with Russia in 24 hours again without any details.
Which does not necessarily "linearly" translate to all the roads/infrastructure costs and services costs.
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