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ClaraListensprechen:
2 months ago
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Last edited at 12:51PM on 3/6/2013
I think that there are no pros. Both parties signed off on it, a president signed it, and nobody is in a position to blame anybody but themselves.
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gatorblu:
2 months ago
Cons; many government employees are going to lose 20% of their pay (1 day's pay per week and it doesn't effect the law makers pay), services will be cut, longer lines at government offices, funding to schools and law enforcement and some medical facilities will be cut.
Pros; the American public can't blame either side because they are both at fault.
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IMShady:
2 months ago
Cons: It makes automatic cuts for programs that shouldn't be cut. It's a meat cleaver approach that doesn't discriminate between good and bad.
Pros: Even at $85 billion, it represents only 2.2% of our budget and LORD knows, we have more fat in the budget than that. If anything, it's only a start to the cuts we need to make. It just need to be done in a more sensible, reasonable fashion and go after budgets that truly need cutting. BTW...did you know that the Pentagon has programs that they want to cut and Congress won't let them? Go figure.
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It's easy to figure. Each Congressperson wants to bring the military pork home to his district. That's one of the problems with district-based (as opposed to proportional) representation.
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The whole premise of the sequester, that overall govt spending should be cut, is wrong. Spending should be increased, since the private sector still is not investing enough to bring down unemployment (and the US can borrow at an inflation adjusted interest rate of zero). So another con of the sequester is that it takes money out of the economy when it needs it most.
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What the heck are you talking about? Taxes take money out of the economy. Cutting the Federal budget is less money for the government and a tiny bit more that can stay in the people's pockets.
The government doesn't create wealth. We the people do that. And we could start doing it again if the govt gets out of our way. Stop feeding the government!
The government doesn't create wealth. We the people do that. And we could start doing it again if the govt gets out of our way. Stop feeding the government!
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Yes, taxes take money out of the US economy -- but not that much in the case of taxes on corporations and rich people, since they have less reason to spend at all, and their spending is more likely to occur outside of the US.
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The govt, meanwhile, is at least theoretically more likely to target its spending to create jobs and other socially beneficial outcomes.
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
They are taking in more taxes then ever in the history of the us and they are still one trillion short
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There's more income, wealth, and people in the US than ever before so it's no cause for alarm that more taxes than ever before are being collected. Nor that there's a trillion dollar deficit, since the US can still borrow at zero percent interest (inflation adjusted).
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We fought the Brits over taxation without representation. Come to think of it, representation is kind of spotty now, with gerrymandering in the House, the filibuster and underrepresentation of populous states in the Senate, judges with policy agendas and lifetime appointments, and the electoral college. Most of that is thanks to the constitution, which was established after we beat the Brits, and has become a sacred cow.
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
so you are saying if they represent it they can tax all they want?
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Yes! And if one govt overtaxes, the people can choose another govt to replace it. That's how democracy should work.
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
Could we just choose to get rid of king George and his goverment? No we had to fight for it
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
And the way it's going in 20-30 years who knows what's gonna happen
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
And one more thing the welfare people should not be able to vote because they just vote for the one that's gonna give them more stuff
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I'm starting to think you're just eager to fight. It seems more efficient to try to get what you want peacefully.
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So if welfare people cant vote, who gets to define "welfare people"? Would include farmers getting subsidies? Anyone taking a deduction for mortgage interest?
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ClaraListensprechen:
2 months ago
He can't, and you're right about his trolling.
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
Welfare people would be the the people sitting there doing nothing but sucking the welfare money
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I don't hate farmers. I just don't think they, or at least the rich ones, should be subsidized, as they are. At least the people on traditional welfare need the money.
But I shouldn't pick on farmers alone. Banks got bailed out bc they were too big to fail. That probably was necessary to prevent an economic disaster, but where are the laws to break them up so we don't have to bail them out again?
But I shouldn't pick on farmers alone. Banks got bailed out bc they were too big to fail. That probably was necessary to prevent an economic disaster, but where are the laws to break them up so we don't have to bail them out again?
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
I live in texas and trust me there aren't very many rich farmers
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
And why don't you pick on the people that sit on the couch doing nothing
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I'm guessing that if someone sits on the couch doing nothing all the time, s/he lost their job and can't find another, or has mental health issues. I wouldn't want to sit on the couch doing nothing all the time, would you?
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
No I just did like 6 hours of yard work
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
It actually doesn't cut anything it just shifts some funds around
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It does cut. I was just reading this AM about cuts to school bus routes, and soon to school days, on reservations.
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Its a joke cutting 2% of spending with a 20% increase
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Their spending 20% more this year than last year but now their cutting 2% of the increase .
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ClaraListensprechen:
2 months ago
Some folks just pull stuff out of hats and other locations. The deal is paying the bills for what's already been spent. It can't be unspent.
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Just look at last years budget and then this years. There is a 20% increase . So now their losing 2% of that increase .Its not a hat trick.
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ClaraListensprechen:
2 months ago
It sure looks like a hat trick to *me*.
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ClaraListensprechen:
2 months ago
Nah. It's more the case that I'm not so easily snookered. ;)
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It's hard for me to believe that with all the debt hysteria, there's a 20 percent increase in the budget that I just hadn't heard of yet.
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Maybe, but not by twenty per cent per year. Then it would double in less than four years. Thats a lot of extra trillions. Someone would notice.
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
Since Clinton was POTUS the goverment has grown almost a third larger
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
It seems like those wars are the base for all our problems
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budthebearded:
2 months ago
And I thought that the libs like bigger goverment?
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Right now there are a lot of people who think the government does almost nothing better than the private sector. Almost no one thinks the government does even most things better than the private sector. I'm in favor whatever is most fair and efficient.
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