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If I were a dem

What Dem would really pursue what you suggest?

This paragraph really summarizes is all...

What’s left? The Social Security and Medicare systems face a $100 trillioncash shortfall over the next 30 years, while the rest of the budget is projected to run a $16 trillion surplus. Closing this gap will require some combination of Social Security and Medicare reforms, and new taxes that include the middle-class. Defense cuts, social spending cuts, and millionaire taxes should be on the table, but cannot close more than a small fraction of that combined $84 trillion shortfall. The math is unforgiving.

The truth is without addressing SSI and Medicare its all a waste of time. How many middle class voters will vote for tax increases on themselves? The math is unforgiving, indeed.
 
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