Tax the Rich!

[pknopp]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

The entitlements part of the budget such as SS and Medicare are already paid from Taxes taken from the paychecks, but the whole shebang was never economically solvent in the first place. Currently Entitlements part of the federal budget is about 73% and GROWING.

Taxes will never be enough because the spending outlay is incredibly high, the Military eats up around 900 BILLION a year, more than the next 20 nations combined, that is freaking absurd!

The National Government never should have been involved in the Entitlement boondoggle in the first place, that isn't what they were created for. The rot began with FDR and their National Socialism programs, it was the Democrats who created the main problem.

Extreme partisanship like you show here is the problem.

Your inability to learn from history is YOUR problem, it was the Democrats who created SS, Medicare/Medicaid, disability, health care and more, ALL of them is part of the overblown entitlement budget that is slowly swallowing up the incoming $$$.

As already noted, S.S. and Medicare is already paid for.

 

[pknopp]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

Great, so what is your plan to get Democrats to pay for the $1.9 Trillion bailout.

I have no plan for that. You couldn't get Trump to pay for his and you think I can get the (D)'s pay for theirs?

 

[pknopp]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

No. The BEST way is to stop SPENDING IT ALL. Cut some spending until it is less than the income.

Wall Street isn't interested in that.

 

[Flash]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

No. The BEST way is to stop SPENDING IT ALL. Cut some spending until it is less than the income.

these Moon Bats never want to hear that.

 

[pknopp]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

more noise from the back of the bus,,, you dont stop debt by paying for whats already there when they are spending faster than it can be paid off,,

the only way to stop it is to cut spending,,,

Since that isn't going to happen, pay up.

Your ignorance is comical, try reading up on the problem will make you smarter:

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This is what the Democratic party created from the 1930's onward. Before that it was 100% discretionary spending which was not difficult to cut back to keep close to a balanced budget set up. Now that entitlements are created and Mandatory, it has become a big no no to cut back any of it, would be political suicide for any of the Senators or Representatives to try, thus it now runs on autopilot growing and eating up the incoming revenue.

No information will ever make that bed wetter "smarter", because libturds lack a frontal lobe, they're deliberately ignorant and not only block information from entering their dense skulls, but they seek to prevent information from being spread that might undermine their regressive agenda.

I argued for years to address the budget. Stop the massive bail outs. Bring the troops home. It didn't happen.

 

[Thinker101]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

Great, so what is your plan to get Democrats to pay for the $1.9 Trillion bailout.

I have no plan for that. You couldn't get Trump to pay for his and you think I can get the (D)'s pay for theirs?

Who knew whataboutism would become so popular again.

 

[pknopp]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

Great, so what is your plan to get Democrats to pay for the $1.9 Trillion bailout.

I have no plan for that. You couldn't get Trump to pay for his and you think I can get the (D)'s pay for theirs?

Who knew whataboutism would become so popular again.

Once again, facts getting in the way of your argument.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Remember when that lying asshole Obama told Americans that he wouldn't raise taxes on anybody making less than $250K but he did? There were like 20 tax increases that affected either directly or indirectly almost every American.

One of the first things he did when he got into the White House was drastically increase cigarette taxes. Cigarettes are mostly used by lower income to middle-class people.

 

[Flash]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

The best way is to stop spending so much.

When taxes are increased it never goes to retire debt. It is just used for additional spending.

Republicans decrease taxes and that stimulates the economy and brings in additional revenue but they spend the money on worthless shit.

Democrats raise taxes and then spend the additional revenue on worthless shit.

The debt never decreases. It sure ass hell ain't gonna decrease if that jackass China Joe increases taxes. It will be used for silly worthless shit like paying Historical Black Colleges to do research on Green energy. LOL! A bunch of it will go to China some way or another.

That is just the kind of fuck up country we are,

 

[pknopp]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

The best way is to stop spending so much.

When taxes are increased it never goes to retire debt. It is just used for additional spending.

Republicans decrease taxes and that stimulates the economy and brings in additional revenue but they spend the money on worthless shit.

Democrats raise taxes and then spend the additional revenue on worthless shit.

The debt never decreases. It sure ass hell ain't gonna decrease if that jackass China Joe increases taxes. It will be used for silly worthless shit like paying Historical Black Colleges to do research on Green energy. LOL! A bunch of it will go to China some way or another.

That is just the kind of fuck up country we are,

If we raise taxes and people refuse to demand that politicians stop bailing out wall street and bring the military home well.........you get what you deserve.

 

[Weatherman2020]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

Is that why Democrats sent almost a trillion to nations that hate us and gave Americans a whopping $600 of their own money back?

 

[pknopp]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

Is that why Democrats sent almost a trillion to nations that hate us and have Americans a whopping $600 of their own money back?

Both parties do that. You are an example of why we can not do anything about this issue.

 

[22lcidw]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

The entitlements part of the budget such as SS and Medicare are already paid from Taxes taken from the paychecks, but the whole shebang was never economically solvent in the first place. Currently Entitlements part of the federal budget is about 73% and GROWING.

Taxes will never be enough because the spending outlay is incredibly high, the Military eats up around 900 BILLION a year, more than the next 20 nations combined, that is freaking absurd!

The National Government never should have been involved in the Entitlement boondoggle in the first place, that isn't what they were created for. The rot began with FDR and their National Socialism programs, it was the Democrats who created the main problem.

Extreme partisanship like you show here is the problem.

Your inability to learn from history is YOUR problem, it was the Democrats who created SS, Medicare/Medicaid, disability, health care and more, ALL of them is part of the overblown entitlement budget that is slowly swallowing up the incoming $$$.

As already noted, S.S. and Medicare is already paid for.

Social Security and Medicare taxes are put into the general fund. For many years the deficit has been filled with IOU's. There should be a massive cushion for retirees. When the the taxes were raise in a huge way in the 1980's, we were told that Social Security was guaranteed until the 2070's. However, that prognosis was made with an annual growth of 4% a year. We of course are averaging far less. So we have surpluses for another decade at most. Which is put into the general fund currently. They will raise the social security tax in some way with raising the age also. Otherwise they will cut the social security payments to the retirees.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

Correct, and Biden is about to bury us in 2 trillion more, and he's only been in office less than three weeks. The reason for no outrage is because most people won't have to repay these debts--only the wealthy when Democrats have anything to say about it. The only way to stop this spending is if everybody had to repay it: the rich, the poor, and anybody in between. Then you'd see how fast the general public would be protesting this kind of spending.

 

[danielpalos]

Name one Federal tax increase in the last hundred years that didn’t hit the wallets of average Americans.

Biden’s tax-the-rich plan would ultimately cost middle-class earners, analysis says

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden has vowed to raise taxes only on individuals earning more than $400,000 annually, but critics contend that his economic plan would wind up draining the wallets of middle-class families as well.

m.washingtontimes.com

Seems more like partisanship based reporting.

“He hits the economy from three directions at the same time. He punishes work, he punishes investment and he makes us less productive,” said University of Chicago economics professor Casey Mulligan, a former economic adviser to President Trump who co-authored the report, which was released Monday. “And people understand from living through the Obama years that Obama just kind of hit you in a bunch of different ways, and it started to add up in the end.”

All those shovel ready jobs that were ready to go but had no support from the republicans is what caused our weak recovery so right wingers could complain about it afterward.

 

[Sunsettommy]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

The entitlements part of the budget such as SS and Medicare are already paid from Taxes taken from the paychecks, but the whole shebang was never economically solvent in the first place. Currently Entitlements part of the federal budget is about 73% and GROWING.

Taxes will never be enough because the spending outlay is incredibly high, the Military eats up around 900 BILLION a year, more than the next 20 nations combined, that is freaking absurd!

The National Government never should have been involved in the Entitlement boondoggle in the first place, that isn't what they were created for. The rot began with FDR and their National Socialism programs, it was the Democrats who created the main problem.

Extreme partisanship like you show here is the problem.

Your inability to learn from history is YOUR problem, it was the Democrats who created SS, Medicare/Medicaid, disability, health care and more, ALL of them is part of the overblown entitlement budget that is slowly swallowing up the incoming $$$.

As already noted, S.S. and Medicare is already paid for.

No they are NOT fully paid for, not only that more and more of the debt is generated from the entitlement part of the budget than from discretionary budget, which is shrinking over time. The chart makes that very clear.

The SPENDING increase is THE problem, it keeps going up and up:

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Big tax increases will not solve the problem. Income is at a record high, but increased spending is what generating the deficits and 66% (and growing) of the spending are on autopilot.

Tax increases isn't going to solve anything, it is spending problem that needs to be solved.

 

[bendog]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

more noise from the back of the bus,,, you dont stop debt by paying for whats already there when they are spending faster than it can be paid off,,

the only way to stop it is to cut spending,,,

Since that isn't going to happen, pay up.

Your ignorance is comical, try reading up on the problem will make you smarter:

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This is what the Democratic party created from the 1930's onward. Before that it was 100% discretionary spending which was not difficult to cut back to keep close to a balanced budget set up. Now that entitlements are created and Mandatory, it has become a big no no to cut back any of it, would be political suicide for any of the Senators or Representatives to try, thus it now runs on autopilot growing and eating up the incoming revenue.

Well the gop supports increasing Medicaid and Medicare. Maybe not social security. But I consider your posting partisan.

If congress lifted the cap on social security taxes, solvency would pretty much be addressed. Like the vast maj of Americans, I don't have a problem with social security, but imo the cost containment for Medicaid and esp medicare is insufficient, as compared to private insurance. And consider me partisan. Although even Reagan made his peace with middle class entitlements

 

[g5000]

$1.4 TRILLION spent annually on tax expenditures. But no one EVER talks about that.

We could balance the budget just by eliminating those. Easy peasy.

If we raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages to 70 to keep up with increasing life expectancy, then we would have a surplus.

Then we can lower taxes for everyone.

 

[Flash]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

more noise from the back of the bus,,, you dont stop debt by paying for whats already there when they are spending faster than it can be paid off,,

the only way to stop it is to cut spending,,,

Since that isn't going to happen, pay up.

Your ignorance is comical, try reading up on the problem will make you smarter:

View attachment 452482

LINK

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This is what the Democratic party created from the 1930's onward. Before that it was 100% discretionary spending which was not difficult to cut back to keep close to a balanced budget set up. Now that entitlements are created and Mandatory, it has become a big no no to cut back any of it, would be political suicide for any of the Senators or Representatives to try, thus it now runs on autopilot growing and eating up the incoming revenue.

What the Moon Bats call "mandatory" are several silly ass entitlements and welfare that could be reduced or curtail. We don't really need them.

A few years ago Rand Paul came out with a Restore America budget that cut a trillion a year out of Federal spending without hitting Defense or even Social Security or Medicare.

We can easily stop spending so much but no idiot politician had the courage to do it. Just like we didn't have to give the COVID stimulus money to foreign countries but we did,.

Ron Paul's 'Plan to Restore America'

www.cato.org

The following are some of the plan’s highlights:

• Paul would immediately eliminate five cabinet‐level departments: Commerce, Education, Energy, HUD, and Interior.
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• Paul says his plan would cut spending by $1 trillion in the first year alone, and balance the budget in three years without increasing taxes.
  
  
• Funding for the wars would end. That’s not isolationism – it’s a common sense position that also reflects popular opinion. In addition, foreign aid spending would be zeroed out.
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• Intelligent government reforms are proposed, including privatizing the Federal Aviation Administration and repealing costly Davis‐Bacon rules.
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• On entitlements, younger people would be given the freedom to opt out of Social Security and Medicare. Spending would be frozen for Medicaid and other welfare programs and they would be converted to block‐grant programs.

 

[Flash]

We are $28 trillion in debt. Best way to stop that is to make people actually pay for it.

The best way is to stop spending so much.

When taxes are increased it never goes to retire debt. It is just used for additional spending.

Republicans decrease taxes and that stimulates the economy and brings in additional revenue but they spend the money on worthless shit.

Democrats raise taxes and then spend the additional revenue on worthless shit.

The debt never decreases. It sure ass hell ain't gonna decrease if that jackass China Joe increases taxes. It will be used for silly worthless shit like paying Historical Black Colleges to do research on Green energy. LOL! A bunch of it will go to China some way or another.

That is just the kind of fuck up country we are,

If we raise taxes and people refuse to demand that politicians stop bailing out wall street and bring the military home well.........you get what you deserve.

You mean like when Obama raised taxes and bailed out Wall Street and still managed to run up $10 trillion in debt with nothing to show for it?