[ExI] Interesting statistic

[William Flynn Wallace]

Have you any ideas on balancing the budget?  Do share please.



spike


Yes - forget about it.  Won't happen.  The only consolation I see is that
point that John Clark made about when you borrow money you pay back dollars
that are worth less than the money you have when you borrow it.  One idea:
means-based Social Security.  I love getting it but I don't need it and
regardless of having paid in to it I would do without it to help the
budget.  I would just regard the tax as going to help other people and not
something I'd get back someday.  Not likely a popular idea.  Welfare is
means-based or supposed to be.  Another - negotiate drug costs (which you
will have to get by the Repubs and good luck with that; think about it -
government employees who refuse to lower the cost of government.  I thought
the Repubs were ecstatic about lowering government costs. But no, not when
it impacts their donors - just how many lobbyists do the drug companies
have?)


bill w

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:46 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:24 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In the senatorial election democrats got 11.8 million more votes than the
> republicans but the democrats lost at least 2 seats to the republicans and
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> >…What is frustrating to me is that polls show that people are more
> likely to favor the Democrat's ideas, but vote Republican.  Given the
> brains and knowledge of the average voter, this is not surprising, but it
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> BillW, one can like the ideas but simultaneously recognize that the
> Federal government isn’t paying for all the ideas it has already had.  It
> is borrowing money to carry out its current ideas.  New ideas are of little
> value unless they are ideas about how to balance the budget.  The ideas I
> have heard from both mainstream parties have nothing to do with balancing
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