re: The GOP wants to add $3T to the debt

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We found it (DOGE), why cant we keep it? Whats that verse in the Bible, Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers? Or something along those lines

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So it’s up to Musk?

Be great if Congress would do their jobs

Don’t spend what isn’t yours yo spend on the first place.

I had (and still have) the same concern as you, although I read the actual blueprint over the weekend and there’s one nuance I wanted to mention. Let’s start with the basics (and note all dollar amounts are ten-year aggregates):

(1) The blueprint authorizes Ways and Means to increase the deficit by up to $4.5T. This is legal speak for “lower taxes.”

(2) The blueprint mentions the various departments and requires them to either increase the deficit (i.e. increase spending) or decrease the deficit (i.e. decrease spending) by a net amount that everyone seems to be reporting as $1.5T in decreased deficit (i.e. lower net spending).

(3) Here’s the part that not enough people are talking about. The blueprint specifies (I’m not going to use the word “requires,” because I’m not sure how binding it is) that the $4.5T in tax reductions shall be reduced dollar for dollar for any amount of net mandatory spending reductions that is less than $2.0T.

So, taking that at face value, your $3T becomes $2.5T. And then it’s not clear to me if there’s 100% overlap between the $1.5T of called out net departmental spending reductions and the $2.0T of net “mandatory” spending reductions. To the extent the $1.5T includes some additional net spending reductions that are not part of the $2.0T mandatory threshold, the $2.5T would be reduced further.

Basically, this is a step in the right direction, but more steps in the right direction are required. I’m not sure why most in this thread can’t acknowledge that this seems good but we should push for more net spending reductions.

You're not smart enough to make this analysis.

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“I went 30,000 miles without an oil change, and my car still runs! Oil changes are imaginary fairy dust!”

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A good way to build up a sludge in your engine. If you try to clean it out by dissolving the sludge, you likely clog up ports. Require an engine replacement. I know this because I bought a used Nissan Maxima a number of years ago. Started having white smoke come out of one the exhausts.

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your joke of an OP, you still have the gall to say this? You’re an uneducated idiot.

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I’m terribly sorry you aren’t smart enough to participate

Let me put it in terms you might understand.

Oooga Booga deficit spending bad

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I’m terribly sorry you aren’t smart enough to participate Let me put it in terms you might understand. Oooga Booga deficit spending bad

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You’re a total moron. An uneducated simpleton.

Democrats care about spending and deficits now?

Well, baby steps, I guess.

This board is preoccupied with the conman's misdirection

The debt is shifting to a new swamp
Elon will make out like a bandit

But he's sucked billions from us for over a decade
It's Trump derangement to think otherwise

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Okay, low IQ, you win the daily low IQ prize. Your comment is that of an imbecile. Because Elon, so, needs another billion. I mean, he only has over $400B now, so yep, he's IN IT for the $$$. Idiot.