Senate Approves Cuts to Social Programs (Cutting $36B in Spending!)

Fox News ^ | November 03, 2005 | AP

[lormand]

...and add Coleman

[rawhide]

Did they make an actual cuts, or just a cut in the rate of future spending?

[newzjunkey]

I'll believe it when it crosses Bush's desk.

[SmoothTalker]

A good start. But $36 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to the unexpected expenses of Katrina, and to the new drug benifit. We need to cut some more fat out.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[R.W.Ratikal]

We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.

[concerned about politics]

The spending battle now heads to the House, where Republicans are divided over whether to cut more deeply across a broader range of social programs.

Cut PBS funding first. There's no reason why the majority of tax payers (Republicans) should pay for a far left wing infomercial!
Then move on to the Endowment for the Arts (It's an unnecessary liberal "artist" welfare program. If they truly were artistic, they'd be able to sell their product and support themselves!).

[AmericanDave]

Ah the Alaska pork is only half a billion, or roughly what the Alaskans get yearly in un-tax rebates from the Alaskan state government.

[cherry]

so why are we giving well off seniors free drugs yet cutting Medicaid services for the dissabled.....and I do mean the truely dissabled?

oh I forgot.....the senior lobby gets the votes out so they get the gold.......

I'm all for cuts, but I think it should start with the massive obscene military/civilian pension system as well as the massive/obscene Social Security system, both which are robbing from the young and the poor to keep the old gezzers fat and happy.....

[tob2]

I got an idea on saving $223M of pork - that stupid bridge to nowhere in Alaska that nobody wants. Except by the Alaskan senators, that is.

[jla]

Pence needs to get the RSC members motivated and energized to impart true, genuine cuts, not this political legerdemain, to this bill when it comes to the House.

[gitmo]

Reaction 1: What country is this article about.
Reaction 2: OK. It's the US. Is it true, or is it a reduction in rate of increase?
Reaction 3: The latter. Sigh.