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    Republican 'Balanced' Budget Boosts Military Spending



    The Republican House Budget Committee just released its plan for how to balance the budget. One little catch is that the proposal talks only of the possibility of this happening in 10 years. The Democrats, they complain, don’t even try to balance the budget. Well, at least they’re more honest about it. It used to be that we looked at five-year plans in the socialist systems, but here we are facing a conservative proposal to “maybe” balance the budget in 10 years.

    This achievement will occur, they claim, without raising taxes. But everybody knows Republicans are just as capable of raising taxes as are the Democrats. They are certainly not bashful about increasing spending. However this budget report claims that they can cut $5.5 trillion in spending — a more aggressive goal than they have ever before proposed. They emphasize a fairer and a simpler tax system to promote job creation and a healthy economy, which I think is nothing more than wishful thinking.

    The claim is also made that the country will be put on a path to “paying off the debt by growing the economy and making government more efficient, effective, and accountable.” The claim that has been made by conservatives over many decades has always been that all we need to do is lower the rate of taxes and get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse and the economy will thrive and the debt will go down. There’s never a suggestion that it is necessary to achieve limited government or that policies have to change, such as our attitude toward the welfare state and certainly the warfare state.

    The new proposal calls on Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. That suggestion has been around for a long time. And what makes us believe that if it’s in the Constitution that the budget should be balanced, it would actually occur? From my experience, the Constitution is not held in high regard in Washington—to say the least. There are too many loopholes, and too many off-budget programs that can be relied on. All we have to do is look at the recent history of the bailouts that occurred off-budget in the crisis of 2008-2009. Are they really going to be able to control the spending that the Federal Reserve participates in? I don’t believe too many Americans actually believe that’s a possibility. And the majority of Americans today want a much more thorough understanding of the Federal Reserve, with a growing number calling for complete repeal of the Federal Reserve Act.

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    http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arch...tary-spending/



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    The Republicans' allocated military spending is actually pretty meaningless because barring a Rand presidency, they'll start another multi-trillion dollar war

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    It doesn't matter that the US empire has the largest military budget in the history of the world, or is larger than that of the next 25 countries combined. The entire neocon-FOX-war party machine paints any possible cut to military spending as weakness, or as fundamentally compromising US "defense" needs.
    -----Peace & Freedom, John Clifton-----
    Blog: https://electclifton.wordpress.com/2...back-backlash/

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    So yet once again, more than the rest of the world combined is still just not quite enough.

    Is the Federal government certifiably psychotic paranoid?

    VOTE, early and often.

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    The cost of medicare/medicaid + Social Security + interest on the debt + defense exceeds ALL Federal revenue. The Republican plan will INCREASE defense, and cannot change interest, so they could ELIMINATE the rest of the Federal budget and would still have to cut into the sacred cows of medicare and Social Security in order to balance the budget. Liars.
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