You do realize the above is hyperbole, nonsense and partisan vitriol right?
The entire annual US Federal budget is a bit over 4.7 Trillion. No one is promising hundreds of trillions of dollars for anything.
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-feder...akdown-3305789
You are welcome to have a political preference. You are welcome to prefer greater fiscal prudence [[hopefully from both major parties).
You are not welcome to make stuff up.
Go read the facts. Then publish those, with citations and links, and then render an informed opinion.
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PS, big spending may or may not be wise [[how big, and on what?) but it is not treasonous. If deficits are treasonous then I would suppose you would favour charging every Republican president for the last 1/2 century w/treason?
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Also, there have been 2 'entitlement' expansions of note since the year 2000.
1) Medicare Part D - Drugs - Proposed and Signed by Republican President Bush
2) Medicaid Expansion - Obama
Which do you suppose was the more expensive?
Ding Ding, you win the prize if you said the Republican expansion, which will cost a bit over 100B this year; while Medicaid expansion runs in the 65B range.
https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-b...and-financing/
Imagine how much more proud of yourself you'd be if you knew what you were talking about!
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The US has a relatively meagre welfare state.
But the highest uptake of Federal welfare programs is in Republican jurisdictions, where poverty is highest.
https://www.lexingtonlaw.com/blog/fi...tatistics.html
If you wanted to examine how the 'discretionary' part of the Federal budget is spent......
Once you include the OCO fund, then
military spending is $989 billion. It's spread out among different agencies and budget categories, so you must add it all together. It includes:
- Defense Department base budget: $576 billion.
- DoD Overseas Contingency Operations: $174 billion.
- Departments that support defense: $212.9 billion. They include the Department of Veterans Affairs, State Department, Homeland Security, FBI and Cybersecurity, and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
- Emergency funding for support departments: $26.1 billion.
From here:
https://www.thebalance.com/current-u...ending-3305763
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If you want to fix the US deficit the answer is both reductions in military spending [[just cut the overseas bit to zero)
Then impose a national, broad sales tax at 5% [[yes, I know that requires a constitutional amendment)
But it would raise 270B per year.
https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/2016/52285
Also required is raising the retirement age to 68 or higher.
And raising the minimum age to receive non-disability based benefits to 65 or higher.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/raising-e...getand-economy
Canada needs to do that to, even though our pension system is fully funded. It would allow more generous benefits.