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I fail to see how a Social Security program that is supported by the most regressive of taxes and is unlikely to pay anything back to the people in my generation who will be financing the retirement of the Baby Boomers is a "good thing"...KH FOR OWNER!
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Yes, I knew 19%-20% of the budget was the military but only about half of the military budget is for purchases or future research with the rest going to pay personal, keep up bases, and maintain extisting equipment.
That 9.5%-10% of the national budget which goes for future weapon systems is LOADED with worthless corporate pork. Examples include the Styker which was supposed to be light weight and fast so it can be air transported however it's aluminium armor was so worthless that the Pentigon forbid them from being deployed without a huge addition of armor which weighted so much the Styker can no longer be transported by air... Which was it ONLY job. Then we have the fact that the air force has repeatedly said they have more then enough C-130s and don't want any more but the Congress keeps forcing them to buy more because the factories have been strategically placed in the districts of key senators and congressmen. Or we could look at the "new" rifle the army wants to replace the M-16 which performs worse in almost every catagory and weights three times as much and costs ten times as much. It's a complete piece of ****.
That's just from memory. The defense budget is loaded with designs which don't work as advertised and will never work as planned. It is nothing more then corporate pork at its worse. Cutting this trash in half would save 5% of the over all national budget. Now that's what I call REAL savings.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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If Social Security goes, the whole system will be going with it. The problem isn't systemic, it's demographic. That problem doesn't go away just because you switch to a private retirement system from a public one. If there aren't enough people to pay into SS, then there aren't enough people to keep stocks afloat.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Free downloads available! Perfect for Tax Day leafletting, as a focus for forums and panels and workshops and more! The new War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer, Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes, analyzes the Federal Fiscal Year 2023 Budget (FY 2023 is 1 October 2022 - 30 September 2023. This FY2023 issue was published in March 2022. Each year War Resisters League analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables in "Analytical Perspectives" of the Budget of the United States Government. Our analysis is based on federal funds, which do not include trust funds - such as Social Security - that are raised separately from income taxes for specific purposes. What federal income taxes you pay (or don't pay) by April 18, 2023, goes to the federal funds portion of the budget.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I fail to see how a Social Security program that is supported by the most regressive of taxes and is unlikely to pay anything back to the people in my generation who will be financing the retirement of the Baby Boomers is a "good thing"...Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Righties whine about pork, lefties whine about the military. Meanwhile, very few people whine about the entitlement programs that make up ~40% of the budget...I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Spiff understands our political system better than a lot of Americans do...Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Originally posted by Oerdin
Social Security's regressivity was a deliberate sabotage by Republicans back in the 80's.
God it's good to have the Dems back in. They are overdue for a good bashing on my part.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Pork is such a minute portion of government spending that the amount of attention drawn to it is hilarious.
For example, we ship coal to Europe to provide energy for our troops when its cheaper to buy energy from the host countries. Why? Members of Congress from coal states want to soak the rest of us.
I guess it depends on how you define pork, I define it broadly - if I'm paying for stuff in your state unrelated to security, its pork. I'd also include corporate subsidies which last I heard from Cato was up around 100 billion a year. Here's another example, after hurricane Andrew hit Florida a bunch of people with construction equipment volunteered to go down and help rebuild. They were not welcomed, Florida wanted federal funds and they wanted those funds to pay union wages. Even if rebuilding aint pork, the obvious effort to soak the rest of us was pork.
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I fail to see how a Social Security program that is supported by the most regressive of taxes and is unlikely to pay anything back to the people in my generation who will be financing the retirement of the Baby Boomers is a "good thing"...
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