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Author Topic: WaPo: Trump to propose big cuts to safety-net in new budget, slashing Medicaid  (Read 1996 times)
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« on: May 21, 2017, 10:58:58 PM »

OK, and the relevance of dragging in Sanchez's brother into this debate or his deathsticks is? I don't see the relevance here and dragging people's personal lives into this makes it feel like we're not debating the budget but Sanchez's internal drama be what they are.  

So: we could argue that balancing the budget and paying down the national debt would allow us to reduce our interest payments which would save us $1 trillion per 4 years if we paid off our national debt or reduced it to a negligible amount. That is one reason to back cuts to the budget (but also another reason to suggest that tax cuts be put on hold in favor of gaining budget surpluses).

I haven't read this document and I might, but do we know for a fact what the Trump budget really cuts without reading the budget booklet they put out?

 


Meanwhile, $1 of tax increases still affect the budget the same as $1 in budget cuts. When does it need to be an Occupy Wall Street type 2 adaalat the hard mathematical quantifiable fact that the prosperity of the last 10 to 20 years - - what there has been of it anyway - Dash has overwhelmingly gone to a tiny fraction of a percent at the top of the economic ladder. Under such circumstances, would it really be that socialistic for a moderate Republican myself to suggest that, God forbid, a tax increase on the uber wealthy be given priority over slashing Medicaid for healthcare among the poorest? Not to mention I trust Medicaid disbursements providing jobs for home health care aides, nurses comma medical technicians across-the-board, rather than the absence of any tax increase on the extremely wealthy cutting jobs like an extra Gardener for their third house or the like.
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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2017, 05:31:00 PM »

For my brother (who relies on Medicaid) to continue receiving care, there needs to be cuts to make it sustainable. This is worrisome, but it's not like we can continue on the same path. How much influence Ryan has over this process will determine my support.

If only the Dems were less partisan. The GOP blocked Obama at every turn while the Democrats whined about "muh bipartisanship." They should put their money where their mouths are and work with Trump on the single-payer plan that he himself floated in 2015. Much better alternative IMO.

You are such a disingenuous hack.

Trump hasn't even bother to call one single Democrat about healthcare. He immediately began to negotiate with the Freedom Caucus when it came to healthcare and moved to the right.

Hell, he didn't even bother trying to do business with the moderates in his own party.  
Why should he? You guys have been working against him from Wednesday, November  9th. The WI and PA recounts, the "Hamilton Electors," the riots, the walk-outs, the collusion with the intelligence communities and the neoconservative elites to effect a coup. You guys could have been friends, but you choose to make us your enemies. That is solely on your side.

The moderates in our own party are even worse. They're bitter because the American people have been rejecting them non-stop since 2008.

Oh please, stop whining.

If Trump seriously wants to do something about healthcare, then he can easily get Democrats on board since they have been wanting to make changes to the ACA for years now. Infrastructure as well is something he could have gotten Democratic support.

He won't do it because he doesn't care about these issues and doesn't believe in anything. The AHCA should have been a wake up call to every moron who believed in Trump's populist BS. He is far more concern about getting perceived "win" then actually trying to fix the issues with healthcare.

This.
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