love these 2 Make the tax cuts permanent allow health insurance to be sold across state lines From trade deals to a water czar, here are some big ideas for Donald Trump's next 100 days
Will probably go as well as his first 100 days promises, like ending the Ukraine war, “liberating” us with tariffs, improving the economy, deporting millions of immigrants, and finding trillions of dollars in fraud…. Trump is a worthless fraud.
1. Water czar — on its face, seems like a good idea to have coordinated water policy. But, not sure the purpose. What is the remit and how will it be measured? 2. Tax bill - Jason Smith will get this done. It’s just a matter of time. The deficit will be massive increase. 3. health insurance — this is a weird one. The ACA opened this door to standardized regulation. Very few states signed on. So, what will happen is the insurance lobby will go to the lowest common denominator state regulator and it will make healthcare worse. The devil’s in the details.
make the tax cuts permanent? So you mean if trump doesnt do anything the tax cuts he put in place during his 1st term will end and taxes will go up? Cant imagine anyone wanting that to happen...oh wait, the liberals do.
Remember when Conservatives used to claim that they cared about the deficit? Yeah, apparently, that was a lie. See the above.
Nobody actually wants to pay more taxes. If you’re being responsible you recognize we need to cover our expenses. We’ve shown that reducing expenses isn’t feasible (plus DOGE’s colossal failure) so we need to increase income. There are limited levers here. If not tax increases how do you reckon we pay our expenses and not continue to run up the deficit?
Okay, how are you planning to pay for fire, police, roads, schools, parks, and all other local services?
Why does the U.S. need a federal water czar? There is not a single corner of the U.S. that is incapable of managing its own water supply, with the possible exception of Flint, Michigan (pop. 82,000). And if you are going to have a water czar that monitors every small town in the U.S., you are creating a very large and redundant department of the federal government, adding billions of dollars in waste. This sounds more like Trump trying to take away power from the EPA and their crazy "water quality standards" that are keeping his precious businesses from polluting the country for profits. Do we also need a federal sanitation czar? A federal dog-catcher czar? A federal HOA czar? Where does this foolishness end?
Trump's tax cuts add big bucks to the federal deficit. Maybe you wouldn't mind if a large percentage of government employees lost their jobs in order to bring the federal deficit back in line? Or would that concern you?
Privatize all of it. Can't pay, you don't play. House catches fire, you are out of luck unless you pay your feudal lord for protection.
well when they tried to get rid of government employees, everyone all of a sudden seemed be up in arms. Cant play both sides of the fence here.
For starters I would focus on entitlements. Get rid of fraud and then either increase the age or make people pay more into it by removing the caps.
Now that he's tanked his approval and signed laws that you could count on 1 hand during the honeymoon period, now is definitely the time for even more unpopular ideas that have no chance of making their way through congress.
Bingo. But to be fair, he did trot out that ole Trumppublican stand-by "get rid of fraud." That's a fun code word strategy that the pro-gun lobby uses for "pretend at this, but in reality do nothing." It's also fun to see all these welfare queens who want a lot of stuff but don't want to pay any taxes. Just let someone else foot the bill, right? It's the Trumpy way.
Here’s an interesting Sankey diagram of our federal budget. By my reading Social Security is -$200B annually out of a $1.8T deficit leaving another $1.6T to cover. About 30% of that is a delta in Medicare income/payments. I’d be interested to know why there is such a large delta. Regardless, I don’t see where you trim enough to cover the deficit without increasing corporate and personal income taxes. US government spending, budget, and financing | USAFacts | USAFacts
