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Warren Stupidity

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16. They aren't broken.

Reply to dkf (Reply #12)

Tue Jan 1, 2013, 09:06 PM

Jan 2013

SS in particular is doing fine. If sometime in the future it needs more revenue just end the cap.

Medicare needs more revenue, but really our piecemeal patchwork healthcare system is the problem, not Medicare. All suggestions to raise rather than lower the age of eligibility are criminally stupid.

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Perspective... [View all] dkf Jan 2013 OP

perspective. did they say they were suppose to fix it all in ONE year? nt seabeyond Jan 2013 #1

No but it's such a baby step and if we make the rest permanent... dkf Jan 2013 #4

he has other things working on the numbers, this is not the only way. it has been decreasing seabeyond Jan 2013 #6

If the tax side is "settled" then that leaves spending. dkf Jan 2013 #8

The "tax side" is not a side, taxation is part of the revenue side JHB Jan 2013 #19

As in taxation vs spending. dkf Jan 2013 #20

I'm viewing this on my iPad, and I was waiting, waiting for the entire graph to load, gateley Jan 2013 #2

Some additional perspective PETRUS Jan 2013 #3

Great links, thanks! Cal Carpenter Jan 2013 #17

We heard not a peep about deficits while Dubya was resident Fumesucker Jan 2013 #5

Well if the Democrats have joined the group that has no comment... dkf Jan 2013 #10

Fiscal sanity would involve stimulating the economy to the point the deficit is moot Fumesucker Jan 2013 #13

You supported the Bush tax cut and its extension RandiFan1290 Jan 2013 #14

I did not support the Bush tax cuts. dkf Jan 2013 #15

Yes, you did RandiFan1290 Jan 2013 #18

Anyone who looks at the budget knows the Bush tax cuts were unsustainable. dkf Jan 2013 #21

Shouldn't the red graph be in "trillions"? kentuck Jan 2013 #7

This is "3rd Way" "Centrist" government inaction RandiFan1290 Jan 2013 #9

So because deficit we should cut ss benefits, right? Warren Stupidity Jan 2013 #11

Those programs need to be fixed in and of themselves. dkf Jan 2013 #12

They aren't broken. Warren Stupidity Jan 2013 #16