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House Budget Plan: It’s The Spending, Stupid
Inestor's Business Daily ^ | 03/16/2016 | Staff

Posted on 03/17/2016 3:18:26 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Fiscal Policy: House Republicans have a budget plan that would balance the budget in 10 years entirely through spending cuts. But it’s not likely to go anywhere because of the $30 billion in extra spending this year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; deficits; spending

1 posted on 03/17/2016 3:18:27 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer

How can they (GOP insiders) criticize Donald Trump for being openly sympathetic to Planned Parenthood when they repeatedly fund it as they talk bad about it?


2 posted on 03/17/2016 3:22:40 AM PDT by BRL
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To: BRL
On the entitlement side, the House budget plan leaves Social Security largely untouched, but once again proposes reforming Medicare along the lines that Rep. Paul Ryan has advocated for years. It would give seniors a fixed amount that they can put toward a private plan of their choice.

And how much would that fixed amount be? How much would a health insurance plan that matches Medicare coverage cost? How can you arrive at that figure when no health insurance companies sell policies to people 65 and older?

3 posted on 03/17/2016 3:40:52 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: BRL

Kabuki theatre!!


4 posted on 03/17/2016 3:52:33 AM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: BRL
The dirty little secret is that the Republican Party has long been a champion of Planned Parenthood's agenda.

Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger as a part of a eugenics movement to eradicate "inferior" races and ethnic groups. I don't know why anyone think the white, male leadership in a secular nation like the United States ever had any intention of de-funding that organization.

5 posted on 03/17/2016 3:54:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat

SO sadly coutinuingly true. PRyno desparitely needs to be Cantorized this Fall.


6 posted on 03/17/2016 4:19:29 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BRL

“How can they (GOP insiders) criticize Donald Trump for being openly sympathetic to Planned Parenthood when they repeatedly fund it as they talk bad about it?”

Good point but I’ll one up it:

How can they (GOP insiders) criticize Donald Trump for not being conservative when they repeatedly talk like conservatives and govern like liberals? Let’s put it this way: If they proposed cutting the budget for 10 straight years and then at the end, adding 30 billion in spending we might talk about it. We are on to the game of “We’ll increase a little more this year and cut next year and the years after. We PROMISE.”


7 posted on 03/17/2016 4:22:02 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

ten yeah always a good number. Tell you what....I’ll pay my taxes in ten years then ok?


8 posted on 03/17/2016 4:38:55 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: IBD editorial writer
Sounds like a diet plan...for the weak willed.

Starting tomorrow, I say!

9 posted on 03/17/2016 4:46:07 AM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: Personal Responsibility
94 Million people not working but eating.....working folks are tired of paying the the Lazy SOB’s free ride. Did you ever notice that people on Welfare or Food Stamps are always Fat and very much over weight. How about some Woke Fare....do something to get your free ride.

Why do we have to feed everyone and then pay for their abortions???

10 posted on 03/17/2016 5:32:28 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: Alberta's Child
I don't know why anyone think the white, male leadership in a secular nation like the United States ever had any intention of de-funding that organization.

What exactly are you trying to say?
I'm a white male in the secular US and think PP is abhorrent.

11 posted on 03/17/2016 5:53:47 AM PDT by NonLinear (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: mastertex

The way things are the bums if required to work would soon have back problems and go on disability.


12 posted on 03/17/2016 6:52:43 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: mastertex

“Why do we have to feed everyone and then pay for their abortions???”

To atone for centuries of white oppression which led to the existence, and persisting, patricarchal white privilege. Welfare is a nice first step but what they really deserve is reparations.

No, seriously. That’s what they think.


13 posted on 03/17/2016 7:09:03 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: NonLinear
Then you shouldn't be a Republican.

That was pretty simple, wasn't it?

14 posted on 03/17/2016 8:25:26 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Alberta's Child
Then you shouldn't be a Republican.

That was pretty simple, wasn't it?

No, it was pretty simplistic. Big difference.

15 posted on 03/17/2016 12:16:04 PM PDT by NonLinear (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: Paladin2

I cannot stand to even look at Ryan. He drips GOP-e. How in the heck did conservatives let him near the speakers chair?


16 posted on 03/18/2016 1:26:14 PM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: gogeo

Never put off until tomorrow that which can just as well be done the day after....


17 posted on 03/18/2016 2:44:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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