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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Apparently you didn't read my post. What exactly do you not understand about the difference between cutting spending versus increasing taxes? There is more than one way to skin a cat.
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Again - I'm asking for verbs in sentences here. What do you propose the government cut, to make up for the multi-trillion-dollar deficit AND produce a surplus?
Should they cut health care subsidies? Careful with your answer: millions of people are healthy because they can afford health care, currently. If you say cut them - be prepared to have sick people in your community who can't afford to get well, shopping at the same stores you shop at, sleeping on the benches you sit at when the squares are open, washing themselves in the public restrooms you visit when you're out and have to go, begging on street corners you have to stop at while waiting for traffic to allow you to cross...
Or how about we just cut out all public education funding? Let the rich send their kids to school and people who are "anything other than rich" - including middle class, can just home-school, quit their jobs, become poor, and hope to die young so they don't have to endure suffering for the rest of their lives as uneducated plebians/servants/indentured slaves.
I know - let's just get rid of military spending. We don't need no stankin Navy, amirite? Except - we do.
We could tell Congress and Senate no more salaries - but all their salaries combined, including that of their secretaries, the mail room clerk, and the cafeteria workers - don't even put a dent into the first trillion dollars of the debt.
We can call in all the debts owed to us by other countries...
but then they will no longer be beholden to us, and the current administration hasn't exactly made friends with the ones who owe us the most so maybe that's a bad idea.
So - what exactly do you propose our country cut, that will equal not just the deficit, but create a positive balance?