thetonestarr on 05 September 2012
| SecondWar said: To even attempt to deal with a debt pile of that size you need both serious tax rises and serious spending cuts. Unfortunately, neither party will do both. The Republicans will generally cut spending but will then also cut taxes. The military, which is sucks up a massive amount of resources, but seems almost immune to austerity. The Democrats will (try) to raise taxes but will also increase the level of spending, in the process getting a lot of negative press-attention from more vocal right-wing 'patriots'. People always want short-term, quick fixes but for an issue like this there is no such thing, any solution is long-term and will likely cause problems in the short-term, creating a backlash and only serving to make it worse. |
I assure you, this is not the case. The problem is, the cuts come out of personnel funding (see: monthly wages), while the REAL financial vacuums are allowed to keep eating away at our national budget. I enlisted for job security. What I ended up getting was pay freezes, annual cost-of-living raises that are half that of the actual increase of cost-of-living, and constant threats to be separated over the tiniest little potential infractions.
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