Posted on 03/16/2015 1:24:01 PM PDT by NRx
WASHINGTON — The congressional push this week to secure the first Republican budget plan in nearly a decade is revealing a chasm between fiscal hawks determined to maintain strict spending caps and defense hawks who are threatening to derail any budget that does not ensure an increase for the military.
“This is a war within the Republican Party,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who has vowed to oppose a final budget that does not ensure more military spending. “You can shade it any way you want, but this is war.”
The divisions will be laid bare Tuesday when congressional leaders unveil blueprints that hew to spending limits imposed by the budget battles of 2011.
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NO MORE DEBT! NOT ONE CENT!
JONATHAN WEISMAN - thanks soooooo much for your concern.../s
Maybe they need to do their job and cut off the honey spigo to a lot of parasites. There’d be plenty of defense money then.
honey spigot
The only sure thing is that the EXEMPT will
keep themselves EXEMPT, and pass more taxes
for others, and continue to spend more as they
ignore -— and enable -—
the systematic, crescendo treason in the White Mosque.
For me, rebuilding our military takes precedence over everything else.
We need to cut other spending to rebuild our Armed Forces.
Today, we’re the pitiful giant.
....cut off the honey spigo to a lot of parasites.....
You mean like all the corporate welfare?
Every Senator and Representative in Washington is all for a balanced budget and cutting spending...when their party isn’t in the majority. When they are then it’s Katie bar the door.
“You mean like all the corporate welfare?”
That’s where I would start.
Name one country militarily more powerful than the U.S.
According to the CATO institute, we spend over $100 billion each year on corporate welfare.
Is that all? /s
Don’t fall for the trolls and the “Corporate Welfare” crap.
If you earn it, it’s yours.(Income)
If you didn’t earn it, it’s not yours. (Welfare)
Yes, WELFARE is giving something not EARNED.
If a company gets to keep it’s income, that’s NOT WELFARE.
Lot’s of political gifts in the tax code, from both parties, turn into campaign donations.
THAT is what has to end.
USG is completely off the rails. It is up to Tea Party Republicans to restore the Republic; history in the making.
I don’t think that’s what is being discussed here. What we, or at least I, am talking about are special corporate tax breaks, and bailouts for Wall Street banks etc.
Corporate and personal.
We could save a BUNDLE of money by taking as lot of the centralized programs and turnign them over to the states.
The Closing down the federal departments that are not helping anything like the dept of education, the EPA, the IRS, and large swaths of other federal beer-o-crapcies...
Why is the school lunch program a large part of the farm bill?
Why are we paying farmers then taxing them....
Why not kill all farm subsidies, simplify the tax code and giving farmers and all businesses a large tax cut?
If we are paying a farmer 20,000 a year then charging them 40,000 a year in taxes, why are we not just charging them 20,000 a year? If we don’t have to hire people to play middleman then we only have to charge the farmer 15,000 a year in taxes, the farmer wins, and we SAVE MONEY!!!
For example...
The defense “hawks” are just giving cover to the GOPe.
"IF THINGS DON'T CHANGE THEY'LL STAY THE SAME."
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