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Entitlement Reform

will you vote for the republican entitlement reform in the midterm election

  • yes

    Votes: 10 23.3%
  • no

    Votes: 33 76.7%

  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
Programs that you paid into all your life are earned benefits, not entitlements. People getting those earned benefits are elderly people. A high portion of them are strong believers in the Second Amendment. Want to see a real second Civil War? Take away THEIR MONEY.

Benefit reductions would likely be for those of us under 55 or so, I'd guess.
 
You can find, with a quick internet search, that the 'actual decrease' of corporate federal income tax revenue from 2017 to 2018 was $92B. That 'actual decrease' accounts for 17% of the federal deficit increase with the rest (83%) being from increased federal spending.

There is an ongoing debate regarding the more effective approach used by government to move others to do the "right thing". You didn't post a link. Were the TOTAL collections by the Feds up or down in 2018?

Democrats seem to prefer the stick: increased regulation and higher tax rates. Trump prefers the carrot using self interest to produce action from the movers and shakers.

The reductions in the Federal Taxes on business seem to be working. More companies are expanding, employing more people and making greater investments.

Pages in the General Register of Regulations is decreased by about 40% from the Obama years.

Wages paid are up, number employed are up, taxes confiscated from each worker is down and overall revenues collected by the Feds from individuals is up. These are all good things and the intended results.

I have always appreciated the idea of the controllers of my life providing rewards to me for working to achieve my own self interest. It's like being payed to play rather than being whipped to work.

Do you prefer the carrot or the stick? Why?
 
There is an ongoing debate regarding the more effective approach used by government to move others to do the "right thing". You didn't post a link. Were the TOTAL collections by the Feds up or down in 2018?

Democrats seem to prefer the stick: increased regulation and higher tax rates. Trump prefers the carrot using self interest to produce action from the movers and shakers.

The reductions in the Federal Taxes on business seem to be working. More companies are expanding, employing more people and making greater investments.

Pages in the General Register of Regulations is decreased by about 40% from the Obama years.

Wages paid are up, number employed are up, taxes confiscated from each worker is down and overall revenues collected by the Feds from individuals is up. These are all good things and the intended results.

I have always appreciated the idea of the controllers of my life providing rewards to me for working to achieve my own self interest. It's like being payed to play rather than being whipped to work.

Do you prefer the carrot or the stick? Why?

You post no link(s) and are trying to assert that a growing federal deficit in every year under Trump 'budgets' is the preferred "carrot approach". Why?
 
Programs that you paid into all your life are earned benefits, not entitlements. People getting those earned benefits are elderly people. A high portion of them are strong believers in the Second Amendment. Want to see a real second Civil War? Take away THEIR MONEY.

If you want in and slap a penny on the counter, you didn’t pay for a Big Mac.

The people money is being taken from is younger generations. Most just don’t know it yet. But when they are told they won’t get 100% paid out because their parents and grandparents are ****ing them, you think they are going to care how those old people feel about it?

It’s coming. ;)
 
You post no link(s) and are trying to assert that a growing federal deficit in every year under Trump 'budgets' is the preferred "carrot approach". Why?

Growing Federal Deficits seems like the way of the world under either party. Bush doubled the debt and Obama did it again. Trump seems to be slowing that growth rate.

The Carrot Approach is to provide incentives for folks to do things that you prefer so they will act to maintain or enhance their self interest.

Do you want more money for the American people? You can regulate and tax the hell out of the employers and force them to move off shore. This might work.

Another option is that you might reduce taxes and regulation making the USA a more business friendly place to operate. This might work, too.

I suppose we'll find out in a few weeks which approach is preferred by most Americans.

In the mean time, reducing Federal spending seems like a good idea.
 
Growing Federal Deficits seems like the way of the world under either party. Bush doubled the debt and Obama did it again. Trump seems to be slowing that growth rate.

The Carrot Approach is to provide incentives for folks to do things that you prefer so they will act to maintain or enhance their self interest.

Do you want more money for the American people? You can regulate and tax the hell out of the employers and force them to move off shore. This might work.

Another option is that you might reduce taxes and regulation making the USA a more business friendly place to operate. This might work, too.

I suppose we'll find out in a few weeks which approach is preferred by most Americans.

In the mean time, reducing Federal spending seems like a good idea.

That (bolded above) says it all - Trump is no different no matter how much BS he spews at his 'rallies'.
 
There is an ongoing debate regarding the more effective approach used by government to move others to do the "right thing". You didn't post a link. Were the TOTAL collections by the Feds up or down in 2018?

Democrats seem to prefer the stick: increased regulation and higher tax rates. Trump prefers the carrot using self interest to produce action from the movers and shakers.

The reductions in the Federal Taxes on business seem to be working. More companies are expanding, employing more people and making greater investments.

Pages in the General Register of Regulations is decreased by about 40% from the Obama years.

Wages paid are up, number employed are up, taxes confiscated from each worker is down and overall revenues collected by the Feds from individuals is up. These are all good things and the intended results.

I have always appreciated the idea of the controllers of my life providing rewards to me for working to achieve my own self interest. It's like being payed to play rather than being whipped to work.

Do you prefer the carrot or the stick? Why?

You, like others, seem to forget a few things such as the fact that the economy has been improving steadily for years before trump was elected and that taking in less revenue while continuing to spend money at ever increasing rates will and is driving us as a Nation into more deficit spending and deeper in debt which will come back to to bite us where we sit. Like it or not there will have to be logical cuts to many areas and taxes will have to go up to keep our Nation solvent, otherwise it will all come crashing down and we feel a new level if pain.
 
You, like others, seem to forget a few things such as the fact that the economy has been improving steadily for years before trump was elected and that taking in less revenue while continuing to spend money at ever increasing rates will and is driving us as a Nation into more deficit spending and deeper in debt which will come back to to bite us where we sit. Like it or not there will have to be logical cuts to many areas and taxes will have to go up to keep our Nation solvent, otherwise it will all come crashing down and we feel a new level if pain.

I was not talking about fiscal responsibility. Only about the nature of government incentives.

One is to punish and another is to reward.

Reducing spending is a needed part of the equation. Things like increasing the tax base, reducing the need for the outlandish outlay of defense dollars and the ongoing increase of Federal Revenues is a good idea for this.

This is the Trump Platform in demanding the greater contributions of other nations to their own defense and the and providing incentives to business and citizens to make good things happen.

Will it work? We'll see.
 
Democrats seem to prefer the stick: increased regulation and higher tax rates. Trump prefers the carrot using self interest to produce action from the movers and shakers.?

Just two days go Trump proposed government price-setting for an American industry, based on price-controlled international rates. That's about a big a stick as you can use.
 
Just two days go Trump proposed government price-setting for an American industry, based on price-controlled international rates. That's about a big a stick as you can use.

Trump muses about a whole bunch of things. His is the most transparent administration in history. Thanks to the Twitter Machine, we have a glimpse, for better or worse, into his inner, unvarnished thoughts.

Did he direct anyone to implement this program? Announce the date on which it will start? Link?
 
Trump muses about a whole bunch of things. His is the most transparent administration in history. Thanks to the Twitter Machine, we have a glimpse, for better or worse, into his inner, unvarnished thoughts.

Did he direct anyone to implement this program? Announce the date on which it will start? Link?

CMS-5528-ANPRM.

He's calling his European-inspired price controls the International Pricing Index (IPI) model. Looks like the right loves regulations and sticks!
 
CMS-5528-ANPRM.

He's calling his European-inspired price controls the International Pricing Index (IPI) model. Looks like the right loves regulations and sticks!

This to be a bit unnecessary.

A better approach is probably to legalize and encourage the import of drugs from international suppliers.

You know far more about this than I do.

Why are identical drugs so much more costly in the US than in Europe as an example?
 
I'm not voting Republican, there need to be some checks against one party having too much power.

That said, I am strongly in favor of raising the retirement age for social security and medicare. But the Republicans will never do it, they rely too heavily on the votes of older voters to do that.
 
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