Posted on 05/26/2025 3:55:01 AM PDT by RandFan
@RepThomasMassie
I’d love to stand here and tell the American people “we can cut your taxes and increase spending and everything will be fine.”
But I can’t because I’m here to deliver a dose of reality about the ticking debt bomb known as the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
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Massie is an idiot. Politics is the art of the possible and Massie would rather lose 3/4 of the pie instead of getting thee whole pie. He is sn obstructive idiot.
We have a winner here! BTTT
We will hit the iceberg, but dead-on, not at some unlucky angle. Nothing Massie or Trump can do to stop it. The DOGE “cuts” were entertaining at the time, but their inevitable rejection by our corruptocrats are confirmation that the iceberg remains dead ahead. Prepare yourselves and your family for what is coming.
Bessent is 100% correct. I'd heard yesterday on Fox News Sunday (Yes, I watched it..) that there's $1.5 Trillion in IDENTIFIED waste, fraud and abuse documented cuts on the table.
I have a question for anyone who can answer: Where is that in the Big Beautiful Bill? If it's not there, why?
As I understand it, Title X states the President must request recision of the spending using a process under Title X. Congress is legally required to spend money budgeted unless the President requests a recision.
The President may temporarily delay spending of budget authority under Title X, but to actually cut spending, a recision is required with Congressional approval requiring only a simple majority in the Senate.
So to "lock in" the DOGE cuts, it's on President Trump to request a recision and the Senate to pass it to SAVE THE $1.5T DOGE identified.
Seems to me (at least) this should be a no-brainer for any legitimate Republican held Senate concerned about how much debt the country is in, to pass a recision request and save the American Taxpayers a big chunk of money.
One has to ask: Why hasn't this been done yet? Exactly how many Republican Crooks in the US Senate are there? (I'd argue ALL of 'em are on the take somehow, otherwise this would've easily passed by now.)
Can anyone imagine, DOGE identifying $1.5T in cuts to waste, fraud and abuse and a Republican Senate actually PASSING it?
The Democrats would lose the White House, Senate and House for generations to come.
What a shame the Republcan Senate lacks the testicular fortitude to do something so simple and so smart.
Critics are rarely profound thinkers. Smoothing out the taxation rates has, virtually EVERY TIME, resulted in an INCREASE in tax revenue. Of course, thee is another part of the equation, the diminishment of regulation, but that is not part of this legislation.
Apparently it is much simpler to raise taxes than to reduce spending. Raising tax rates, whether on individuals or corporations, negatively impacts tax revenues. The right response is NOT to become ever more grasping. Seizing assets is all part of the same mindset as seizing increasing degrees of political control through excessive regulation.
Is the iceberg going to obliterate the Deep State and drain the Swamp?
Full freaking speed ahead...
No they’re all protected.
It’s you and your pocketbook they want.
Yes, that's the Trump/Bissent plan.
Massie and now Rand and Sen. Johnson in the Senate should whip a better plan but they can't. So they will vote "no" along with Mitch, Lindsey and every Democrat.
Massie sucks.
I'm not understanding how writing off the non-tax receivables of the government would do anything but decrease income/net worth... can you explain?
TIA
That's exactly where we were headed until Trump seized the helm and changed course.
The problem is that no agency is even capable of accounting for what they spent the last years funding on? At least without going to federal prison......So instead, our country just runs a "Last year plus twenty" series of funding mechanisms.
And we certainly don’t need a congress if they haven’t produced the primary work product from the body for 15 years. This was their primary responsibility, abandoned for 15 years.
Think whatever you like. That politician a grandstanding POS who counts on fools to continue buying his BS. And the majority of u do.
If the GDP grows at 4% or more, and if we use the increased revenue wisely (to reduce the debt), we may survive.
If not, and the debt grows exponentially, we are doomed.
I believe Pres Trump understands this.
But does Congress?
"If" is the biggest word in the English dictionary.
I don’t have to ask why it hasn’t been done yet. I am well aware that the BBB was a marathon with all hands on deck. I also note the vacation days which I’m less than happy about. Between the BBB & vacation the legislative calendar was full. I have read that Trump’s cabinet will be sending the rescission package to Congress in the near future. They have been a little busy as well between Trump’s initiatives and tresponding to injuctions & other lawfare.
If the GDP grows at 4% or more, and if we use the increased revenue wisely (to reduce the debt), we may survive.
If not, and the debt grows exponentially, we are doomed.
I believe Pres Trump understands this.
But does Congress?
"If" is the biggest word in the English dictionary.
It’s really a shame that you haven’t done the research or reading to answer your questions. I posted Stephen Millers explanation several times as to why only a small percentage of DOGE cuts are in the bill: mandatory vs discretionary. The DOGE cuts are primarily related to the 2026 budget and they are being bundled for the legislature to address.
That’s why I voted in 2024.
So the Oval Office can do the job of obliteration and draining of the people who have been protected, and stealing,for decades.
“If the GDP grows at 4% or more”
At 4% a year, the houses being built would be about 50% bigger in 2035.
At 4% a year, by 2045 you’ll have trouble parking your stretch limo.
Who volunteers to become 4% sicker each year?
We’re coming up short. Can I have 8% sicker each year volunteeers?
In 2035, Junior might have 27 years of education under his belt.
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