Inkwell Institute
Budget Deficit Series #2
Daily Agitation
Enough is enough!
To begin with, let us establish one thing…..REALITY BITES!
We all have been bored to death the the endless he said, they say on the deficit…..accusations fly like mosquitoes in summer…..but so far absolutely NO one has a good idea for lessening the impact of the budget deficit…I mean anyone can find fault with an other’s opinion or statement….but it takes a large statesman to stand up and offer “real” solutions to the rise in the deficit…after all we pay the SOBs in Washington to solve problems not hide from them…..since they will not do it…I WILL!
Instead of chopping the crap out of social services and entitlements….why not grow some cajones and do what is needed……it is safe to do nothing or as little as possible….but none of that actually helps the country or the deficit in any way
Everyone in Washington (the demented little toads that they are) is scared to death to make a hard choice proposal….how ill it look back home to my voters? Meanwhile the rest of the country starves to death….good choice dipstick……Nothing more despicable than a liar and a coward….and Washington is full of them….I am not afraid to ridicule and I definitely not worried about votes….so I guess I have nothing to lose…..Unfortunately, the American people are just as guilty as the douche bags in Washington….they want solutions to the deficit but only if it does not effect them directly……does not matter which side of the aisle we talk about they are all the same….. the wealthy want to whack the entitlements for the poor….the poor want to stick it to the rich….and then NOTHING substantial happens to lessen the deficit and any solutions always has a 5 or 10 year life span…. I ask, “you want to kill the deficit?” Then follow me…..
To me the choices are simple……and yes someone is going to be pissed off at these proposals….but the best I can say is, “Get over yourself”……
The first place I would start is by ending all wars that are sucking our country dry….this is a difficult one because with all those returning troops the unemployment will go through the ceiling…..but I would end it all NOW!
Second, I would eliminate the ceiling on FICA…as it is now if you make above a certain amount, then you do not pay your Social Security, Medicare, etc taxes….eliminate that exemption and SS would become more secure and it would eliminate all that worthless chatter and lessen the deficit….
Third, Put into place a value added tax (VAT)…..Huh?
VAT is seen as neutral with respect to the number of passages that there are between the producer and the final consumer whereas sales tax is levied on total value at each stage (though in the U.S. and many other countries, sales tax is charged only at the point of final sale to the final consumer, and a use tax only to the final user; there are no sales taxes paid at wholesale or production level). The result is a cascade (downstream taxes levied on upstream taxes). A VAT is an indirect tax, in that the tax is collected from someone who does not bear the entire cost of the tax.
Fourth, eliminate the tax deduction stuff……put into place a flat 10% income tax….no deductions….no exemptions…..EVERYONE pays the same percentage….
Finally, I would suggest considering the sacred cow, the cash cow….defense spending…I mean something is wrong when a toilet seat costs $60…..
None of the proposals are rocket science…….
Everyone says they are so concerned with the deficit and the future of the kids…if that is true demand something be done….other than the day care mentality of the arguments our politicians are having now……if you are not willing to make the HARD CHOICES…then stop whining and let sh*t happen!
So true. Of course, your point about the stupid dream world so many voters live in IS undoubtedly half of the problem in the first place. If only they were even slightly realistic…
Look, PEOPLE (of the whole bloody world!), it’s so-oooooooo simple… where the f*ck do you think the money comes from for chissake?
Any country’s ONLY source of income is from its taxpayers and the “services” that country provides are FOR those taxpayers – you can muck about with the balance and tinker here and there around the edges, but the fact is that when the brown stuff hits the goddamned fan, YOU have to give up stuff to save money!
All right? Got it? Duh! 👿
Thanx my friend….you said it in fewer words…..I can be long winded sometimes….lol…….people seem to believe in the old “money tree” theory….the country is soooooo ignorant about where cash comes from……and it looks like they do NOT want to hear the truth….they have the mental recall of a DoDo…and we know what happen to them….
We can all be a bit “long winded” on occasions, (although I don’t personally think you were being that way here) but there is a problem with many people only apparently having an attention span that lasts for two or three sentences.
However, I’m not sure I agree with your point about wars – for reasons we have discussed before (don’t START wars, but once you ALREADY HAVE, see it through and WIN!). That, though, has little to do with my point here since much of the cost goes on bureaucratic waste rather than providing troops with what they need and deserve to do the job properly.
When you have some bureaucratic twerp applying the same basic specification criteria to everything military (including toilet seats) the net result is GUARANTEED to be an utterly stupid mess. Exactly the same thing applies to medicine in the UK – if you left MEDICAL decisions to the MEDICS and made the bureaucrats keep their noses out of things they know nothing whatsoever about, then the whole system would run much more smoothly, be a lot better in general and the money would go towards paying for the best MEDICAL service we can afford, instead of a whole load of useless jerks who produce a bland, middle of the road service that satisfies almost no one except them and their kind because it looks “good(ish)” on their forms and in their statistics.
If all the money that is wasted on the bureaucracy of war and defence was channelled into training and equipping the troops properly and SPECIFICALLY for the job in hand and according to the advice of the commanders on the ground instead of some office full of pen-pushing know-nothings, then far less of our service people would die and the wars would have been over by now with far fewer civilian dead and maimed as well.
Well Itry to be brief but informative….over the years I have learned that most people can only understand between 300-500 words at any one given time….so I try to post within that range….most of the post could use a lot more explanation but why if I lose them after 300 words?
We have had the war conversation several times…but in this case I am saying that it is past time for the US to be the 911 of the world….yes by all means give the troops what they need to succeed….but beyond that we need to be more selective in who we take to task……
Oh yes, I agree with that – my point (in a sentence) is that the accompanying bureaucracy CAUSES the overspend as well as the military failures simply because it is not even appropriate to the job – never mind capable of doing it.
So true….I had wondered why there were so many contractors wanting government deals it they had to put up with massive amounts of oversight….and then I found the answer……over-billing is common place and expected….