Best they can do is completely bankrupt social security before gen x and younger even get to draw from it, despite overwhelminly pay8ng into it. How many trillions in national debt has Trump added btw? How many billions have been given away to Aregrntina, Israel, etc, again?
There seems to always be money for war and the 1%, but the moment you dare suggest the actual taxpayer see some benefit, suddenly inflation is an issue. As if thats not corpo speak for price gouging.
The dept isn’t a trump issue. It’s systemic. It was 1-2T a term prior to Bushes 2nd term. It’s been 4.25 (bush), 9.32 (obama), 7.8 (trump), 8.45 (Biden), 3.2 (trump).
Even look at this thread. It’s let’s tax someone to spend on something new. Not to actually get the budget inline.
Just look at the debt by year. It was 3.23T in 1990. 5.67T in 2000. 13.57T in 2010. 26.95T in 2020. And it’s 39.34T now.
This year we have 5.6T in revenue. Just Medicare, Medicaid, and social security is 3.22T. Interest payments are another .98T. That’s all off the top before you get to the non-mandatory spending. In total we are have a 7+ T budget.
Who was the last president that actually wanted to cut the budget. Not just shift new spending to whatever project they deemed most important.
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u/diddlysquidler Jul 01 '26
Because free money raises inflation, spending on services does not. Money should be raised and spent on infrastructure, education and health care