It should be Medicare. Social security and defense. Those are our biggest bills. Cut checks by 20 percent. Increase deductibles by 50 percent and cut defense down to 700 billion. That should do it. I hope that go this route. The bandaid needs to be ripped off finally.
And the best way to lose the House and Senate by breaking the social contract with the millions of US citizens that have paid into Social Security and rightfully expect to get the most out of that system when they need it most.
Ok, you are high?
No cuts needed in social security or Medicare. Just eliminate the income ceiling at which taxes stop being taken out. Why should one billion (1000 million) income pay same tax as 1 million income?
It should be Medicare. Social security and defense.
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JMO but those of us that work pay taxes to fund these three programs.
What we don’t pay taxes for is support for 30 million illegal aliens, Foreign Aid, the UN and its bottomless pit spin-offs such as WTO, WMF, UNWRA, UNICEF, Etc. it’s also time to bring home troops deployed to support NATO, withdraw from the UN, and kick the Organization off of American soil. As a side note a serious look needs to be taken at Medicare especially as administered by states such as California ( a state that is single handidly bankrupting America).
Hopefully day one President Trump will restore law and order to the nation and DOGE will chop spending off at the knees. Pray that enough pressure and a sense of true statesmanship overwhelms the HOR to seat the speaker and get the train rolling out of the station on time!
WWG1WGA!
Cut Medicare and Social Security and Repubs will be recalled, primaries, and lose the House & Senate in 2026.
Probably the presidency in 2028 as well.
No, use DOGE to reduce all the other gov’t by half, get rid off all corporate welfare (4X as much as is spent oj food stamps and Medicaid), end H1-b, find all fraud and abuse in social welfare spending, tell Europe they can handle Putin all together militarily (and they can) then reduce military spending by 20%.
This will balance the budget while shoring up Social Security and Medicare.
The Federal Government now spends more money on Social Security Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, interest on the National Debt, and defense than it collects in taxes. So without cuts to those categories, even if the government totally eliminated all other spending, the budget still wouldn’t balance.
These massive deficits in spending every year, by every president of late, has kept the system barely functioning. The only ‘growth’ we get now has been massive deficits and debt, and Republican and Democrat voters show no interest in stopping that spending.
While the potential savings in defense are huge, to cut that budget will take many structural changes in procurement. Given that existing multi-year contracts are already in place, it is not a quick thing to cut.
Climate Change cr** should ALL be eliminated.
And say hello to President AOC on 2028
You must be in better financial shape than most of us who paid into Social Security/Medicare for 40 plus years - your “plan” puts the Dems in charge in 4 years so they can finish us off.
I vote we cut aid to other countries first
first being Ukraine
How about stop sending billions to The Ukraine and Iran? Deport 10-20 million illegals, shut down 50% of the Bureaucracy. Pull out of the Paris accords. Lots of money saved.