Smashing the “monsters”: It’s time to address the national deficit

The Canary in The Mine ^ | 04/14/2017 | The Canary

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

If this tariff is supposed to collect enough money that the government no longer needs income taxes, just who in the Sam Hill is going to pay it, and for what??

In 2015 I bought a Subaru for $31,000. If I had waited until after your beloved tariff went into effect I could have bought a Subaru for $37,200, or a Jeep for $37,199.

Instead, I would have bought nothing. For whom does that create a job???

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

"the advent of cheap consumer goods made in China"

The cheap goods made in China aren't any worse than the American manufactured goods of the '70's, back when there was no foreign competition to speak of.

Remember when it was a bad idea to buy a car made on a Monday or Friday? That's history now, thanks to Honda and Toyota.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Without cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other non-discretionary spending you will never balance anything.

You'll get nowhere with that idea here on FR, Dawg.

The I PAID IN!!! THE GOVERNMENT PROMISED!!! crowd is pretty vocal, and Trump heard them.

We will drive the Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid bus until the wheels simply come off in a couple of decades.

At that point, no one will care about who paid in, or who promised them what.

[Senator_Blutarski]

We will drive the Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid bus until the wheels simply come off in a couple of decades.

The real problem is that many responsible folks included Social Security and Medicare in their financial planning for retirement. They were assured that was a sound policy.

In the early 1990's the company I worked for got rid of its pension program. I had planned on a pension and it took me 20 years to fully recover.

If we hope to repair SS and Medicare we'll need lots of runway to allow folks to revise their financial plans (assuming they have a plan).