To: Pollster1
I hope a large chunk of a $1T cut comes next year. I dont trust (not even from President Trump) claims of cuts later. And I certainly want cuts of at least $1T a year below this years spending and continuing below this years level forever. Wishful thinking. You could cut every single dollar of non-defense, non-DHS discretionary spending; eliminate State, Treasury, Justice, Education, Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, HHS, HUD, Interior, all of them; and you still wouldn't hit $1 trillion in cuts.
To: DoodleDawg
Wishful thinking. You could cut every single dollar of non-defense, non-DHS discretionary spending; eliminate State, Treasury, Justice, Education, Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, HHS, HUD, Interior, all of them; and you still wouldn't hit $1 trillion in cuts.your right. You have to cut entitlements.
7 posted on
02/27/2017 6:32:23 PM PST by
D Rider
To: DoodleDawg
I think you can. A number of things to consider are: increase in growth will bring in more revenue, cut the waste, make people understand you are cutting the increase in growth of government, not cutting precious programs, and cut to spending on illegals will help not only federal but state budgets.
To: DoodleDawg
But if you throw in cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, payments to illegals and cuts to AFDC...you could probably get to $1trillion.
You know, entitlements to people that not everyone believes is entitled.
15 posted on
02/27/2017 7:58:04 PM PST by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: DoodleDawg
You could cut every single dollar of non-defense, non-DHS discretionary spending; eliminate State, Treasury, Justice, Education, Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, HHS, HUD, Interior, all of them; and you still wouldn't hit $1 trillion in cuts. Agreed. I'd start with the non-"entitlement" discretionary spending and cut deeply there. Then we do need to cut entitlements. I just don't want to start with that fight.
18 posted on
02/28/2017 2:17:32 AM PST by
Pollster1
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