Posted on Feb 13, 2018
Trump budget aims to jump-start construction, cut red tape
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Whatever happened to the importance of a balanced budget, smaller government, and fiscal conservatism?
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MAJ James Woods
No such thing regardless who is in the White House. Dems are consistent with wanting to spend money on domestic programs and having taxes in place to pay for it. GOP are consistent with wanting to spend money on defense and private industry and cutting taxes while hoping someone will pay for it.
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We need to dramatically improve our infrastructure. The other benefits with this is a military pay raise, opioid prevention, treatment and long-term recovery, and border security just to name a few. And it "would again spare Social Security retirement benefits and Medicare". So how can this be bad if the United States benefits from it?
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
That's just sacrificing long term economic problems for short term benefits. Our problem isn't a lack of income, it's overspending. MORE spending further increases the long term problem. Cuts are coming and the longer we wait, the worse they will be. You and I may not suffer from it, but our kids and grandkids will.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski - During the Obama administration the national debt went from $10 trillion to just over $19 trillion in 8 years. That is $1.125 trillion per year on average. Under Trump's plan "the new budget sees accumulating deficits of $7.2 trillion over the coming decade." DECADE which is 10 YEARS and comes to about $720 billion per year. That is a SAVINGS of $405 billion per year or $4.05 Trillion in ten years. How can SAVING $4.05 trillion over ten years be a bad thing for our children and grandchildren?
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