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Old 04-09-2012, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by coralway View Post
Well, last week (or maybe the week before) there was a discussion on the Paul Ryan proposed budget. Someone asked how he intended to account for the 4 trillion dollars in spending cuts to go along with the massive (surprise) tax cuts.

Never did see an answer to that.
From the beginning comments......

" Both budgets achieve about the same tepid levels of deficit reductions.

Neither proposal suggests any real spending cuts to entitlement programs.

The Ryan budget "takes back" the defense spending cuts previously agreed to by the GOP as part of the agreement to form the super committee, actually increasing defense spending by $600 billion.

Both budgets address only the 12% of federal spending categorized as "discretionary domestic spending".

The Ryan plan achieves it's results primarily with cuts to social programs and education to fund further tax decreases and increased defense spending. The POTUS budget also decreases business taxation, but increases taxes on the wealthiest Americans. The POTUS budget also cuts discretionary spending, but less deeply than the Ryan plan.

Neither budget materially reduces the unsustainable rate of increase in the national debt."


Then some more from the same thread...

"but Ryans budget, albeit far from perfect, finally addresses those uncomforable issues that need to be addressed. As you have said many times over the years, we are heading to be another Greece without severe and hurting cuts. He had the nerve to actually address the never ending welfare state that we have begun."

"You don't have to explain the items, but can you just give a list of "those uncomfortable issues" which are not addressed in the President's budget, but are in Ryan's? "

"I happen to like Ryan's increase in military spending."

These are just from one thread and there have been other mentions of the fact that the budget was intended to address the welfare state, etc. If you need very specific items, and dont know how to search for them, I would be glad to try and find specific wording for you.