Is socialism endan^gered in The United States?

[DonFerrari]

MDMAlliance said:

fatslob-:O said:

MDMAlliance said:

Just wondering... is it really possible to cut spending in a non-incremental way besides completely getting rid of it?  What I say still stands, because he wanted to cut costs on everything.  If you cut too little from everything, it does nothing.  The only logical conclusion that a chunk would be taken off where it would be noticeable.  If you do that, you create a big problem.  Why do you think it's so hard to change our budget?

The way I see it now, we're only bleeding money so it makes sense to cut alot of costs and expenses while lowering taxes too so that congress doesn't abuse it by increasing their own paychecks. :P

I'm not going to put it against you for not knowing this, but higher taxes and spending don't go to increasing Congressmen's paychecks.  Almost all, if not all, of the members of Congress (more specifically the Senate, the more powerful of the two) are rich.  Rich as in millionaires.  The pay that they get, even if you were to decrease their pay to almost nothing... it would account for a negligible part of our debt.  And even if you believe we are overspending in some areas, since the money is already dedicated to those areas someone is going to see the consequences of the cut pay.  I know that an argument against this is that the economy will be spurred by the cut taxes.  That idea, however, is just a theory on what could happen.  If it doesn't happen, things just get much worse.

Put source of how much the senate and congress spend on their wages and functional costs... here it costs a small fortune (some Billion Dollars each house).