John Boehner Lengthens The Wick On The Austerity Bomb

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12. Social Security

is a transfer payment system. Reducing benefits without reducing the taxes that pay for them is a shallow scheme to redirect that money to other spending. Health care costs in America could easily be half what they are were the profit motive eliminated or tightly regulated. Reducing national security state cost by half, nationalizing health care and eliminating the Bush tax ripoff would pretty much solve the government's money problems and make life better for those who actually pay the bills.