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To: MileHi

Maybe. Balanced budget and term limits will never come from congress so the states will have to via A5.
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A balance budget means cutting mandatory spending like Social Security and Medicare.

The discretionary spending that just passed was $1.7 trillion and for all the rhetoric about pork, half of it was military or military type spending.

Over $4 trillion of the Federal Budget is mandatory spending that can only be changed by Congress.

Getting Federal receipts and outlays within reason doesn’t take a balanced budget gimmick, it takes a Congress with some intestinal fortitude.


58 posted on 01/07/2023 8:42:42 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: unclebankster

The military is a small part of the budget. The “mandatory” spending is the lions share, and there is plenty to cut.


59 posted on 01/07/2023 9:21:55 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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