I like Ryan, but ...
these kinds of budget proposals [Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023] are just pie-in-the-sky.
One Congress cannot impose on future Congresses. Although this budget plan may look good on paper, the next Congress is not bound by it.
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Instead of 10-year or 5-year plans, try cutting the CURRENT spending. Then, maybe, we will believe ...
People in WI outside his district must not be impressed by Ryan either. They were Biden voters in WI.
The “pie in the sky” aspect is that it requires future Congresses to have the political will to stick with a sound plan over several years. Unfortunately, it is an institution designed to avoid adherence to any sound plan, even if only for a day, much less a decade.
But I don’t really blame Congressmen as much as I blame the idiots who put them there. Why expect Congress to exercise critical thinking skills when the public won’t?
$10 trilllion spending increase over 10 years yet will be decried as ‘cuts’ and ‘austerity’ by the statists on the left and right.