Trump Tariffs Deliver Surprise Budget Surplus

[nikcers]

Exactly. Therefore, politicians should never be given credit for legislation that pretends to do that.

When counting up spending cuts, the only ones that count are the ones that take effect by the end of the next budgetary year.

Cutting it immediately would just cause voters to just elect the democrats.

If the Republicans stay in power they wont vote to extend it.

You can't cut spending if you cant stay elected.

This is a historically proven strategy to reduce spending.

 

[acptulsa]

Cutting it immediately would just cause voters to just elect the democrats.

It acts like that's probable.

Moo.

 

[Invisible Man]

Cutting it immediately would just cause voters to just elect the democrats.

If the Republicans stay in power they wont vote to extend it.

You can't cut spending if you cant stay elected.

This is a historically proven strategy to reduce spending.

Again, I'm not going to get into an argument over whether spending cuts are good or bad. We get it, you don't want the federal government to cut spending. I won't waste my time trying to change your mind.

Suffice it to say, you agree with me on the point of fact that Trump is not cutting spending.

Edit: As for your last sentence, the only thing historically proven about this strategy of legislating make-believe cuts that we are supposed to pretend future Congresses will go along with is that it is historically proven to result in spending always going up.

 

[nikcers]

Again, I'm not going to get into an argument over whether spending cuts are good or bad. We get it, you don't want the federal government to cut spending. I won't waste my time trying to change your mind.

Suffice it to say, you agree with me on the point of fact that Trump is not cutting spending.

Edit: As for your last sentence, the only thing historically proven about this strategy of legislating make-believe cuts that we are supposed to pretend future Congresses will go along with is that it is historically proven to result in spending always going up.

Thats not what I said. I said you cut it over time and you dont lose the votes. If you cut it all at once you lose the votes and then the other party increases it.

 

[nikcers]

It acts like that's probable.

Moo.

Thats how the tea party reduced spending. It worked. The tea party cut it over time. They didnt lose the votes.

 

[Invisible Man]

Thats not what I said. I said you cut it over time and you dont lose the votes. If you cut it all at once you lose the votes and then the other party increases it.

Those cuts over time only happen if the Congresses of those years make them, which they never do.

The only cuts any Congress can make are the ones they make now. Not the ones they pretend to compel future Congresses to make. If they're not cutting spending now, then they're not cutting spending.

 

[nikcers]

Those cuts over time only happen if the Congresses of those years make them, which they never do.

The only cuts any Congress can make are the ones they make now. Not the ones they pretend to compel future Congresses to make. If they're not cutting spending now, then they're not cutting spending.

They do though. Cuts happened under the tea party that took congress and blocked the spending. They stayed in congress long enough for the cuts to pass.

People act like the tea party movement didnt do anything but it did.

One of the things they famously cut was the shuttle program.

 

[acptulsa]

I suppose you supported the Big Bill then, right?
Or did you oppose it because while it cut spending

How do you figure the BBB cut spending?

 

[acptulsa]

the tea party reduced spending.

More bullshit.

Moo.

 

[nikcers]

More bullshit.

Moo.

It did cut spending. Of course the press didnt report that they did.

They blamed the credit downgrade.

The political force in our government that made it happen was the tea party.

Alternatively though perhaps in another universe the Occupy Wallstreet political movement won power in our government and they increased spending but they didnt.

 

[acptulsa]

It did cut spending. Of course the press didnt report that they did.

They blamed the credit downgrade.

Moo.