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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
it's because Defense is the only major spending we could actually cut. Non defense discretionary spending is less than ten percent of total budget.
Raising Medicare eligibility will cost more than it will save.
Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit.If we don't pay interest on our debt, we go into default.
Cutting Medicaid pushes the additional cost onto the states. Or people starve. One is not cost effective and the other is immoral.
So that leaves Defense.
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yes, it does. i know with the convoluted accounting practices the gov uses that it's argued it doesn't, but it really does. we pay less in than will be taken out. then there's the iou's.