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Trump’s “Taxpayer First” Budget Proposal Puts the Emphasis Back on the Givers
IWB ^ | Robert Carbery

Posted on 05/31/2017 5:19:23 AM PDT by davikkm

Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney detailed President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal last week. Here’s what you need to know and what I have to say about it.

Trump’s budget, like all other presidents’ budgets, is merely what the current administration hopes for and will not be enacted, includes $3.6 trillion in total spending reductions over the next decade with the biggest savings coming from the assumed adoption of the American Health Care Act, which faces quite a substantial hurdle in the Senate.

The budget is titled: “A new foundation for American jobs” and this emphasis on economic growth is why so many Americans put a businessman in charge of the world’s largest economy. For once, the administration is at least attempting to care for the taxpayers that fund this enormous government sprawling across the swampy streets of Washington DC. Mulvaney said they’re thinking more about the people who are paying the taxes, trying to justify why hardworking people should cough up their money for many redundant or repetitive programs instead of only focusing on those receiving the benefits and growing the ineffective welfare state.

(Excerpt) Read more at investmentwatchblog.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: givers; taxpayerfirst

1 posted on 05/31/2017 5:19:23 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm
"(Excerpt) Read more at investmentwatchblog.com ..."

No.

2 posted on 05/31/2017 5:20:48 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: davikkm

If these low life’s in the Senate cannot pass the healthcare bill they need to be replaced. Obozocare is the worse trick ever played on us.


3 posted on 05/31/2017 5:26:56 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Lumper20

It’s getting very hard to beat someone in primaries.

I guess it always was. Those in power want to stay in power.

Being in congress was never supposed to be a lifetime career.


4 posted on 05/31/2017 5:29:21 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Lumper20

Senator Grassley is quoted this morning saying it won’t happen.

Why did we elect these people ?


5 posted on 05/31/2017 5:29:45 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Senator Grassley is quoted this morning saying it won’t happen.

We need to be proactive, like the liberals with their endless demonstrations. Why is it that the country has been trending liberal for over 100 years? Yep! Sooner or later, liberals get what they're working for and what they demonstrate for. Republicans try to be the grown-ups in Washington, but in the end, we end up losing ground while the democrats get their agenda passed, even if slowly and even if temporarily blocked.

Our reps and senators need to get the message from their voters, that we voted them in to get Obamacare repealed, and we wanted tax cuts, and we wanted them NOW.


6 posted on 05/31/2017 5:46:11 AM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: davikkm

DEFUND socialist/totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic.


7 posted on 05/31/2017 5:49:43 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: davikkm

Correction: no giving involved.

Taxes are extorted at the point of a sword, stripped from families who would make free choices to benefit themselves. Instead, they work for that which will be stolen.

If slavery is 100% uncompensated labor, we are 15-39% slaves - and more counting State tax extortion.

I applaud Trump.


8 posted on 05/31/2017 6:23:52 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Lumper20

If these low life’s in the Senate cannot pass the healthcare bill they need to be replaced. Obozocare is the worse trick ever played on us.””””

Correction:\

OBOZO is the worst trick ever played on the American people.


9 posted on 05/31/2017 7:45:23 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: davikkm

Are the corporate tax cuts in here?


10 posted on 05/31/2017 10:23:10 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: ridesthemiles

Agree.


11 posted on 05/31/2017 12:11:10 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Great question. I believe the RNC has used us for some years. I think we need to demand more non lawyer successful business candidates from the RNC. We have given the RNC everything they asked for except Trump. I say they need to put up or shut up. They need to be reminded/told that “WE ELECTED Trump AND REJECTED JEB BUSH AND ALL OTHERS THEY PUSHED.” It is high time that We the People are consulted on every major deal/vote.


12 posted on 05/31/2017 1:08:35 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Good question. We need to write each one and remind them.


13 posted on 05/31/2017 1:11:26 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: dp0622

Roger that.


14 posted on 05/31/2017 1:12:07 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Well said.


15 posted on 05/31/2017 1:14:40 PM PDT by Lumper20
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