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$34.5T in debt... so cut taxes?


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  1. 1. with $34.5T in current debt, I believe taxes should be...

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  2. 2. We need a balanced budget amendment now more than ever?

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How much of this budget goes to citizens?  I thought it was all the boomers fault.

You're getting fleeced like sheep from your government and grifted to the globalist billionaires who own and select your politicians.

More taxes will just give them more while leaving you holding the bag.  Rinse/repeat.

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52 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

How much of this budget goes to citizens?  I thought it was all the boomers fault.

You're getting fleeced like sheep from your government and grifted to the globalist billionaires who own and select your politicians.

More taxes will just give them more while leaving you holding the bag.  Rinse/repeat.

oh look, :crazy: has entered the chat 

2 minutes ago, Doug said:

Cut spending starting with foreign aid.

what's the largest portion of the federal budget?  :news:

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23 minutes ago, X2700 said:

Yep cut all the foreign aid and war shit wouldn’t take long to get back to somewhat balanced budget!!!

tip of the spear... but a start 

but that doesn't resolve the debt issue does it?  

Debt service amounted to 2.4% of the economy last year, CBO said, and is poised to rise to 3.1% this year and 3.9% in 2034.

In contrast, the previous record net interest cost for the U.S. government in CBO data that goes back to 1962 was 3.2%, reached in 1991.

In dollar terms, net interest is set to cross the $1 trillion per year mark in 2026 and $1.6 trillion in a decade.

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/08/us-government-debt-gdp-interest-costs

the can has been kicked down the road for three decades 

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Just now, Crnr2Crnr said:

nice... you said Trump first

;)

 

I knew that would get noted ... just figured it was coming from someone else :whistle:

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2 minutes ago, Bontz said:

I knew that would get noted ... just figured it was coming from someone else :whistle:

my phone alerts me everytime his name is posted here... 

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1 hour ago, ArcticCrusher said:

How much of this budget goes to citizens?  I thought it was all the boomers fault.

You're getting fleeced like sheep from your government and grifted to the globalist billionaires who own and select your politicians.

More taxes will just give them more while leaving you holding the bag.  Rinse/repeat.

What budget? You have to go all the way back to the Bill Clinton for that. It's just massive Spending bills and CR's since and the threat of government shutdown if they don't get their way. Which is usually trillions

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Here’s your problem…..oh and keep cutting the IRS ……..fuckin wads.

Dozens of big U.S. companies paid top executives more than they paid in federal taxes, report says

Source: CBS News

March 13, 2024 / 12:01 AM EDT

Top executives of dozens of major U.S. companies received more in their compensation packages from 2018 to 2022 than the businesses paid in federal taxes, according to a new analysis of financial data from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF). 

The report highlights the issue of whether some America's biggest and most profitable companies are carrying their weight, and comes as President Joe Biden is proposing to boost the corporate tax rate to 28%, up from the 21% rate set under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

The analysis, which examined tax and compensation data for the first five years after the TCJA went into effect, seeks to link generous pay packages for top executives with the lower tax rates that corporations have enjoyed since 2018. Pay for corporate leaders has been on the rise for decades, with CEOs in 2022 earning about 344 times more than the typical worker, up from a ratio of 21-to-1 in 1965, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

"We have these never-ending fights in Congress over our fiscal situation, one crisis after another, and one reason why we're facing fiscal challenges is because corporations have not been paying their fair share of taxes," said Sarah Anderson, a lead author of the report and director of the global economy project at IPS, a progressive think tank. She added, "The executive compensation system is really set up to incentivize executives to push for corporate tax cuts and take other measures that will boost the value of their shares in the short term and the value of their paychecks."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ceo-pay-federal-taxes-biden-tesla-ford-aig/

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7 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Here’s your problem…..oh and keep cutting the IRS ……..fuckin wads.

Dozens of big U.S. companies paid top executives more than they paid in federal taxes, report says

Source: CBS News

March 13, 2024 / 12:01 AM EDT

Top executives of dozens of major U.S. companies received more in their compensation packages from 2018 to 2022 than the businesses paid in federal taxes, according to a new analysis of financial data from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF). 

The report highlights the issue of whether some America's biggest and most profitable companies are carrying their weight, and comes as President Joe Biden is proposing to boost the corporate tax rate to 28%, up from the 21% rate set under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

The analysis, which examined tax and compensation data for the first five years after the TCJA went into effect, seeks to link generous pay packages for top executives with the lower tax rates that corporations have enjoyed since 2018. Pay for corporate leaders has been on the rise for decades, with CEOs in 2022 earning about 344 times more than the typical worker, up from a ratio of 21-to-1 in 1965, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

"We have these never-ending fights in Congress over our fiscal situation, one crisis after another, and one reason why we're facing fiscal challenges is because corporations have not been paying their fair share of taxes," said Sarah Anderson, a lead author of the report and director of the global economy project at IPS, a progressive think tank. She added, "The executive compensation system is really set up to incentivize executives to push for corporate tax cuts and take other measures that will boost the value of their shares in the short term and the value of their paychecks."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ceo-pay-federal-taxes-biden-tesla-ford-aig/

No doubt this needs to be straightened out but those making the rules are same ones benefiting from them!!

too bad they can’t figure out if everyone paid fair share we’d all be paying less!

but then again they would just spend more!!look at how wasteful state and federal government is!!!!

look at some of these jobs and made up jobs !!

most private companies would go broke!!

 

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34 minutes ago, Skidooski said:

What budget? You have to go all the way back to the Bill Clinton for that. It's just massive Spending bills and CR's since and the threat of government shutdown if they don't get their way. Which is usually trillions

But its all for the benefit of the taxpayers.

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3 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

But its all for the benefit of the taxpayers.

Hardly anything they do is for the common folk :sad: 

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2 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

Historically when you cut taxes the government ends up with more revenue. Our problem is spending. What good is more revenue if you are just going to blow it on wasteful spending.

what if increased taxation was specifically earmarked towards the debt... if it came with a balanced budget amendment? 

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Just now, Crnr2Crnr said:

what if increased taxation was specifically earmarked towards the debt... if it came with a balanced budget amendment? 

Again Democrats have this dream where if they just take more tax money everything will be just fine but history shows a different story. The key would be to reduce Government in all directions. Less taxes, less spending,less regulation. I would feel better if the richest zip codes in the country are all in the DC area.

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1 minute ago, Carlos Danger said:

Again Democrats have this dream where if they just take more tax money everything will be just fine but history shows a different story. The key would be to reduce Government in all directions. Less taxes, less spending,less regulation. I would feel better if the richest zip codes in the country are all in the DC area.

fine... how does that reduce the debt we already have? 

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1 minute ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

fine... how does that reduce the debt we already have? 

Cut taxes,cut spending and use the surplus to buy down the debt. Everyone knows the fix they just don't want to do it.

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Cutting taxes is always the correct answer.  There is no amount of federal tax revenue the government brings in that it won't be able to squander away.

Less taxes need to be paid to the federal government.  It's more efficient to collect it at the local level and use it for local projects.

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