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Balance the budget
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online.
My solution (go back to the good old days of the Clinton Administration):
- artie_fufkin
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Re: Balance the budget
Max wrote:
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online.
My solution (go back to the good old days of the Clinton Administration):
Reduce foreign aid, pork, nuclear weapons spending
Let the Bush tax cuts expire, eliminate loopholes, eliminate the cap on payroll and income taxes, then enact a flat tax
Reduce supply-side costs for health care
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Re: Balance the budget
Reduce foreign aid, pork, nuclear weapons spending
Let the Bush tax cuts expire, eliminate loopholes, eliminate the cap on payroll and income taxes, then enact a flat tax
Reduce supply-side costs for health care
I think you summed up how most of America feels, except pork. We like pork.
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Re: Balance the budget
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online.
My solution (go back to the good old days of the Clinton Administration):Reduce foreign aid, pork, nuclear weapons spending
Let the Bush tax cuts expire, eliminate loopholes, eliminate the cap on payroll and income taxes, then enact a flat tax
Reduce supply-side costs for health care
Did you actually try it, Artie?
It's kind of fun. Let's see your solutions . . .
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Thread Starter- Mags
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Re: Balance the budget
While I agree on foreign aid, given that it is usually an investment to facilitate American business, it's so damn hard to find out what really is foreign aid. I just learned that the U.S. Taxpayer will be eating 5 billion dollars of the Ireland Creditors Relief program by virtue of the International Monetary Fund's contribution.
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While I agree on foreign aid, given that it is usually an investment to facilitate American business, it's so damn hard to find out what really is foreign aid. I just learned that the U.S. Taxpayer will be eating 5 billion dollars of the Ireland Creditors Relief program by virtue of the International Monetary Fund's contribution.
We're well on our way to balancing the budget. Obama just announced a freeze on the salaries of federal workers. It's a great relief to those of us in the Dreaded Private Sector who are making about 40 percent of what we were 10 years ago.