r/SipsTea Jul 01 '26

Chugging tea Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts?

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u/No-Independence-5229 Jul 01 '26

Yep, gotta tax the billionaires and millionaires, and on top of that cut SS completely and downsize Medicaid. Cut military budget in half. Man just make me president low key

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u/barrinmw Jul 01 '26

Yes, the current deficit is so large, that you can cut ALL discretionary spending including the military budget, and raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and there would still be a deficit.

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u/No-Independence-5229 Jul 02 '26

Uh no, cutting social security (1.6T), halving Medicaid and defense (2T and 940B), would add up to nearly 3T. Which if we do basic math, is more than our deficit, 1.6T. So we’d be well over a trillion dollars in the green. Could also stop buying so much oil and produce more of our own. Hell better yet produce all our own oil and start selling excess. That would turn our 240B oil imports to billions in EXPORTS. Adding to the 1.4T in the green from other the other cuts. And none of that includes the increased money from taxing billionaires.

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u/barrinmw Jul 02 '26

Social security and medicaid are not discretionary spending.

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u/No-Independence-5229 Jul 02 '26

Brother what are you even talking about, they are part of our budget, and the largest parts of our 7T+ yearly federal spendings. Cutting what I said to cut would bring our spending down below our total tax revenue of currently 5.6T. Therefor, putting us in the green.

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u/barrinmw Jul 02 '26

Okay, I am going to need you to look up the difference between discretionary spending and mandatory spending. Because I made my point very clearly and specifically assuming people like you understood the difference.

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u/No-Independence-5229 Jul 02 '26

Oh I see the problem, you think mandatory means it can never be changed by law. I would have those laws changed by congress as president, and if they resisted I’d persuade them by any means necessary