Not many know that entitlement payments are on auto pilot legislation like congresional raises. They need no appropriations, no debate, no nothing. They are automatic.
The only way to stop entitlement payments, other than new legislation, is to fail to raise the debt limit.
Even then, entitlements get priority, after government operations and employees, for any income received by the federal government.
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This doesn’t need to be this difficult.
The message that needs to go to the president is simple: Here’s the only deal...every dollar in new revenue from taxes is matched ONE FOR ONE by a dollar in spending cuts, and the timing must also be identical. If the taxes happen now, then the matching spending cuts happen NOW, not ten and 20 years from now as is being reported. If the spending cuts don’t happen for 10 years, neither do the tax increases.
That will definitely get the left to look a lot more seriously at the tax increases they are demanding.