re: Smart play by remaining Republicans is to

Keep telling people Lincoln was a Republican back in the day

He will veto everything and go to state dinners and enjoy himself the next two years. If he was smart, he’d invite the dems in and just work with them. The republicans are clearly too inept to do anything he wants them to.

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Never underestimate the stupidity of the D party.. they will do it…

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Yeah that fella was/is giving the left quite a bit of credibility there - quite a bit too much. Given their not so subtle displays of frenzied craziness, openly and proudly, I’d say it’s a reasonable expectation that they’ll do as much and go as far with their newly acquired power as they possibly can, very much literally.

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How, specifically, would you like the govt to lower prices?

I’ll wait.

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The government did things that made prices go up, ie the war. Stop doing those things and the prices will come down.

Not sure if Vance has a chance. His endorsement of Vivek's ad against Amy Acton really pissed Ohioans and with that, other American citizens, off.

The GOP needs someone under the age of 50/55/60 to get the younger white male vote back.

Who is our next Charlie?

So just forget we have more soldiers in Europe and east asia?


And if you are worried about gas prices now...

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The government did things that made prices go up, ie the war. Stop doing those things and the prices will come down.

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Incorrect.

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Jihad IS “war”. And our Nation cannot “stop” the war by ignoring it. Especially as nukes and AI Bio come into play. Like a cancer, the options are few, and obvious.

Islam is dead serious re their Theocratic system and they are pledged to Alla/God to serve it. Your belief to “stop” the war is fallacious, unless you are willing to accept THEIR terms. Such being adopting their Theocracy.

We can run but we cannot hide. Pick your poison.

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It's not fallacious to end a war that was never justified. Iran was never forcing its terms upon us. We are the ones that used AI / algorithmic targeting to bomb a school. The last bio weapon was funded by us, and we gave chemical weapons to Saddam.

If we had not gone to war - Iran would still not have nukes, our economy and cost of living would not be in shambles, our servicemembers would still be alive, and we would not have seen Texas elect a radical Democrat as governor.

The poison is Israel and you don't pick a poison, you stay away from it.

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Raise interest rates, stop spending so much ephen money, and require at least a trillion dollars per year to pay down the deficit. But the risk of stagflation will prevent this and the fear of voter fallout if the stock market goes down.

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First off raising interest rates does nothing to help the deficit, it hurts it by increasing borrowing costs leaving less money for other parts of the budget. We are already at the Trillion dollar level in net interest alone. Only way to trim that would be cut rates leaving some money to go to the net debt.

Then if you have 1 trillion going to debt service, 4.5 Trillion goes in social programs like social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare that are on autopilot spending. Another 1.8 Trillion is for discretionary spending like military and other programs like highways.

So last year, the government collected 5.8 trillion in taxes. Minus the 1 trillion for debt servicing, you have 4.8 trillion left. Here is pie chart of spending where do you cut.

Our debt problem is a math problem with no real world solutions for the lifestyle and government we created. Yes there is potential fraud in all of these sectors, but two trillion in fraud is a bit much. One big factor is healthcare inflation out pacing income growth.

Eventually, you have to raise taxes. One way is to eliminate deductions and credits to get rid of all the carve outs that businesses and millionaires wrote into the code to pay as little taxes as possible. Taxes should be flat, fair and universal to all income levels not just the rich and omitting the poor. 10,15%, or what ever is needed to fund the government on all income. Not some magical formula that gets reduced because have 2.5 kids, or you bought an electric car, or put solar panels on your home, or drove 10,000 business miles on a car.

Some taxes that should have been raised years ago are social security and Medicare taxes, the programs were never intended to be a pay as you go systems with the federal government taking all the tax revenue and using it to balance the budget.

Medicare and Social Security really shouldn’t be in the chart, it should be in its own budget and tax revenue structure independent of the government. That way any surplus in the past would have stayed in social security and Medicare, and not be spent by the drunken sailors in Congress.