Trumps first budget! Your thoughts?

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So what are your thoughts on Trumps first budget?



Did he trick his base? with all the social security programs he said he wouldn't cut.

Is this proof the wall will never get built ($1.6 allocated for the $20 billion estimate, ie 8%)

What about the $2 Trillion dollar discrepancy/double count?

Banking the increased tax take from the inheritance tax they are going to scrap?


As you may notice I think its fucking hilarious and the kind of work you would expect from someone trying to fudge their way through a task they are unqualified for.

Basically every place I visit pan it as laughable high school stuff, so please if you have any reviews that aren't so negative share.
 
My personal issue is that the budget is based on trickle down economics as is becoming the norm around the world

Its concerning the frequency with which countries struggle with low wage growth continue to pass upper class and business tax cuts when each dollar would be much better spent by giving the citizne more money to spend.
America giving rich people more money does not increase their desire to invest in America, the only thing that will encourgae investment in America is more money being spent by Americans.


That plus the hilarious double coun accurately protray this budget.
 
Economically insecure working class whites of the rust belt, your prayers have been answered.

We're getting rid of the estate tax!
 
Economically insecure working class whites of the rust belt, your prayers have been answered.

We're getting rid of the estate tax!

Finally, we will stop taking away family farms and megayachts.
 
It's like the GOP jumped the shark from run of the mill bad guys and into the realm of comic book style super villainy.
 
It's like the GOP jumped the shark from run of the mill bad guys and into the realm of comic book style super villainy.
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Incredibly predicable. Combine the idiocy of the Tea Party with a president who knows nothing and Wallah, Ayn Rand in action.

Shit in = Shit out.
 
I don't mind taxation cuts as long it comes with spending cuts that equal out. Moving money into military spending, while lowering taxation is just bad budgeting. Trying to hedge all of it off gdp growth expectations over the next 3 years is just super laughable.

I'm all for running a nation like a business, but it's myopic as hell for any business to assume that kind of forecast while not cutting overhead yet still depleting known revenue sources.
 
Trump's budget could use more cuts, but it's a good start.

The US doesn't have a revenue problem, we've got a spending problem, and the way the debt has ballooned under Bush and especially Obama is simply not sustainable.
 
I don't mind taxation cuts as long it comes with spending cuts that equal out. Moving money into military spending, while lowering taxation is just bad budgeting. Trying to hedge all of it off gdp growth expectations over the next 3 years is just super laughable.

I'm all for running a nation like a business, but it's myopic as hell for any business to assume that kind of forecast while not cutting overhead yet still depleting known revenue sources.

It's not actually a budget, it's a statement of ideology and as such doesn't much care for things like facts or reality.

Ideology > than facts for Republicans which is exactly what the GOP has spent years fostering. It's sickening to watch the GOP try and pretend that they are not directly responsible for Trump when it was them that spent years on targeted propaganda which incubated the conditions that allowed trump to even have a chance at winning.

In other news the GOP does not want it's voters educated unless they set the curriculum; facts and science be dammed!

The stupidity of thier greed is simple in essence, if those proposals came to be, Republican donors and politicians would be murdered. When you create as system which disincentises the majority of the population to buy into social contracts, violent revolution is inevitable. The rich are only rich because society allows it.

What do you think happens when 25 milion plus people with nothing to lose have family members die and they know exactly who is responsible? Study some history if you want the answer to that question.
 
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Trump's budget could use more cuts, but it's a good start.

The US doesn't have a revenue problem, we've got a spending problem, and the way the debt has ballooned under Bush and especially Obama is simply not sustainable.

So where would you cut?
 
Time to tighten that belt America.


And on a serious note, we need to deal with entitlements, even if it is political suicide.
 
Time to tighten that belt America.


And on a serious note, we need to deal with entitlements, even if it is political suicide.

We can deal with entitlements later. All this will do is empower the left, whom I am convinced wants to destroy the West.

All we need from the moronic POTUS is to stop the total assault on Western civilization, which evil Hillary would have continued unabated.

Focus on economic growth, focus on energy production (Keystone XL was a great move), focus on school choice, focus on strong borders and national security.

Leave entitlements alone for now. We do have to tackle them, but we have to change the culture first. This is not a political fight, it is a cultural one. It will not be fought or won in Washington.

We have to rebuild. Our homes, communities, churches. Create a self-reliant society. Then we can deal with entitlements.
 
So where would you cut?
Well, everyone knows the real spending issues are Medicare and Social Security, but there's so much demagoguery over these issues that meaningful reform is next to impossible. It needs to happen though.

In the meantime, cutting discretionary spending sharply, as Trump has done in some cases is a good start. This is the most responsible budget we've had in more than a decade, which sadly is a very low standard.
 
Finally, we will stop taking away family farms and megayachts.
As a rustbelter I know at least a dozen or so family farms that were auctioned off, split up and had subdivisions replace them in the past 10-15 years to pay estate taxes
 
The military spending boost is highly disturbing.
It's needed. We've had our military deployed constantly for years on end, and we need resources to refit and upgrade. We've got tanks that don't run, planes that don't fly, and our navy has cruisers older than most of the folks posting in here. The boost doesn't mean military increases; we're running to stand still.
 
Well, everyone knows the real spending issues are Medicare and Social Security, but there's so much demagoguery over these issues that meaningful reform is next to impossible. It needs to happen though.

In the meantime, cutting discretionary spending sharply, as Trump has done in some cases is a good start. This is the most responsible budget we've had in more than a decade, which sadly is a very low standard.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/

Please read this, thanks.
 
It's needed. We've had our military deployed constantly for years on end, and we need resources to refit and upgrade. We've got tanks that don't run, planes that don't fly, and our navy has cruisers older than most of the folks posting in here. The boost doesn't mean military increases; we're running to stand still.
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I am glad he's cutting many federal department budgets. That's what many presidents failed to do. We really do need to cut the budget if we want the country to survive. Now I am only concerned with him deciding to increase spending in certain sectors and giving business large tax breaks.
 
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