[KantianBurke]

Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security: the only way out of this mess is either cutting benefits to these entitlements or raising taxes to pay for maintaining these entitlements or a combination of both. That's it. Anything else is fantasy.

[Tzimisce]

We need to dump those programs. They’re killing us.

The problem is any attempt to do so will get you thrown out of office. :(

[cripplecreek]

Anything to keep dumping money into the EPA, NEA, HUD, etc etc etc.

[Bleh1236]

I think we should just end the entitlements.

We’re not slaves now, unlike what OBONGO wants us to think.

[GeronL]

dept of energy, education, commerce, NPR, PBS, Planned Parenthood, OSHA, TSA, legal aid, federal student loans etc etc

should be eliminated

[Monorprise]

It should be noted that that a significant part of the reason for the existence of this demographic imbalance is the very existences of theses programs, and their effect on our population.

I don’t simply mean the way someone tends to consume more when there is less(or no) consequences to conception. I’m talking about an offend overlooked failing. The failure to provide for your future by means of children.

You see in any kind of retirement no matter how you work out the math, your basically drawing upon the then existing resources being produced by the then existing population.

That means you have to store up resources, or credits for resources to redeem them later on. Children are not simply an investment in your family and genetic survival, historically they were a direct and practical investment in your future retirement. AS a result one of the main reasons people had large family was to provide them with an inflation proof future way to retire.

When Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid came on the seen naturally that incentive to have a family went away. Of course there are other factors that are contributing as much or more to the destruction of the American family. Abortion, Women in the work force, devaluation of marriage, ect..

The point is we can’t simply close our eyes and pretend that this problem is going to go away with more taxes. Theses programs are effecting our couture and choices in a negative direction that is progressively worsting our situation.

Insolently even if we wanted to tax more then 19% we couldn’t. So revenue is basically dead on arrival, not because we are unwilling to tax more, but because the Federal Government has historically been UNABLE to extract more.