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Topic	Trump is KICKING 3 MILLION people off FOOD STAMPS cause they can get JOBS!!!
Broken_Zeus 07/24/19 8:22:11 PM #15:	sodium-chloride posted... This just in, all crime is made legal! ...or crime will massively go down because people will need to get jobs which, in turn, will keep them too occupied to get into trouble. Lirishae posted... Republicans pretending to care about saving money is just lol. They've passed a $4 trillion dollar budget and ballooned the debt to $22.5 trillion dollars. $2.5 billion dollars isn't even a drop in the bucket, it's a subatomic particle in the bucket. They're perfectly happy to pay for wars, corporate welfare, bailouts for Trump's base, and tax cuts for the rich, but the second you start talking about spending money on the poor & working class, they start crying about how we can't afford it. ....it's rare to see somebody who misunderstands how things work this badly. First off, the basics -- that national debt (as near as I can tell) is $22.023 trillion as of the end of June. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/24/facts-about-the-national-debt/ The national debt is $2 trillion higher than when Trump took office in 2017 (and it's worth noting that Obama added $9 trillion to the national debt during his term, partially off measures he coordinated with GWB). I'm trying to confirm the claim regarding the budget, but I should note that the national budget was $3.8 trillion in 2015 so its not a catastrophically larger number and, of course, that one of the larger budget items is paying the interest on the national debt which increases year over year. Beyond that, the biggest spends are social welfare programs (which takes up about 66% of the national budget), not military (which, while it makes up 55% of discretionary spending, is a far smaller piece of the overall pie since discretionary spending accounts for less a third of the overall). "Corporate welfare" (other than bailouts) is a vast exaggeration since, 90% of the time, it just refers to tax breaks where the government is still taking in money rather than paying it out (as opposed to social welfare, which is pure loss). Likewise, you aren't "paying for tax cuts" since a tax cut isn't an expense, it's a reduction in revenue. Unless you believe that 100% of our money belongs to the government -- and that we're the US government's property (which is a socialist and communist idea... as well as the idea of monarchies and dictatorships) -- and that they give us back what they feel we should get rather than the government taxing what it feels is appropriate. --- Gamefaqs cannot handle my #BrokenBrilliance <cite>Broken_Zeus posted [p:925140903] in Trump is K... [t:77885221]...</cite> <quote>sodium-chloride posted...</cite> <quote>This just in, all crime is made legal! </quote> ...or crime will massively go down because people will need to get jobs which, in turn, will keep them too occupied to get into trouble. Lirishae posted...</cite> <quote>Republicans pretending to care about saving money is just lol. They've passed a $4 trillion dollar budget and ballooned the debt to $22.5 trillion dollars. $2.5 billion dollars isn't even a drop in the bucket, it's a subatomic particle in the bucket. They're perfectly happy to pay for wars, corporate welfare, bailouts for Trump's base, and tax cuts for the rich, but the second you start talking about spending money on the poor & working class, they start crying about how we can't afford it.</quote> ....it's rare to see somebody who misunderstands how things work this badly. First off, the basics -- that national debt (as near as I can tell) is $22.023 trillion as of the end of June. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/24/facts-about-the-national-debt/ The national debt is $2 trillion higher than when Trump took office in 2017 (and it's worth noting that Obama added $9 trillion to the national debt during his term, partially off measures he coordinated with GWB). I'm trying to confirm the claim regarding the budget, but I should note that the national budget was $3.8 trillion in 2015 so its not a catastrophically larger number and, of course, that one of the larger budget items is paying the interest on the national debt which increases year over year. Beyond that, the biggest spends are social welfare programs (which takes up about 66% of the national budget), not military (which, while it makes up 55% of discretionary spending, is a far smaller piece of the overall pie since discretionary spending accounts for less a third of the overall). "Corporate welfare" (other than bailouts) is a vast exaggeration since, 90% of the time, it just refers to tax breaks where the government is still taking in money rather than paying it out (as opposed to social welfare, which is pure loss). Likewise, you aren't "paying for tax cuts" since a tax cut isn't an expense, it's a reduction in revenue. Unless you believe that 100% of our money belongs to the government -- and that we're the US government's property (which is a socialist and communist idea... as well as the idea of monarchies and dictatorships) -- and that they give us back what they feel we should get rather than the government taxing what it feels is appropriate. --- Gamefaqs cannot handle my #BrokenBrilliance</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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