towermonkey wrote: I posted this on another thread. We're not so far apart I think
Like most anything, the real answer usually lies somewhere in between. I have been a proponent of cuts in SS, Medicare and Defense along with a small national sales tax, slightly higher tax rates on the over $250k club and and slightly larger tax on the over $1,000 k club. I don't happen to like SS the way that it is structured now, but to try and change it loses elections. Medicare needs to go back to pre-Bush form. Defense needs to be drastically cut back. I simply don't buy this crap about why we need to have bases all over the world acting as the world's police. If that is the case, then the rest of the world needs to pay for the services rendered. Somehow I doubt they will be interested.
No, you don't get it at all..They are stealing all our food and throwing us a few crumbs and you're saying we all have to lower our crumb intake..Social security and Medicare are literally the last things we cut..And you don't think there are costs associated with cutting SS and Medicare? Do you think we are just going to let millions of people go homeless, or die due to lack of healthcare? No, we'll pay one way or the other and just like our great healthcare system now- We'll pay more and get less than any other country on earth...Sometimes you gotta spend a dollar to save five.
