they 34 estimate by $203 billion for this year. with that immediate deficit concern even less than it was, i don t see the reason for liberals to be compromising on cuentitlement. so i think that is not likely to happen now. to me that s a very good thing. i agree on that. last week at this time, we thought this week would be all about immigration reform and of course it s not. media has been sidetracked. as you pointed out, congress has not. congress has been working on this slowly, marking up the bill. of course a lot of the editions have been poison pill stuff and there s a lot of discussion around, what can we do for gay families? which is perhaps an intractable divide there. but this sort of recent group of scandals or scandalettes has had less of an impact than boston which gave people philosophical cover to say wait a mi
they want to get together and bargain and that is freedom of association. go to a flee market on a saturday. that doesn t mean you have to impose your will on the rest of the country. most people don t want to be a part of the union public unions whether you like it or not are bankrupting states like california. and illinois. 203 billion of unfunded debt. the reason we have such a race between illinois and california. it is a rice right to the bottom unfortunately. the bad news for union members they don t know taxpayers can leave and when the money runs out union members won t get it. the key point of all of this is these unions are monopoly providers of services. that s why 350,000 kids are not in school. they are taking control of our government at the local and state level away from we the people. that s the thing we have to start focusing on.
prosperity, a blueprint for american renewal. ryan could cut $5 trillion, relative to the president s budget proposal and $3 trillion reduced from the deficit over ten years. all while forking over $554 billion. that is the number of dollars he would allocate to defense spending in 2013, nearly $30 billion more than president obama s budget proposes, and over the next decade, he would spend on defense, $203 billion, more than the pentagon has asked for. ryan would like our country to be a place where 25% would be the corporate tax rate. down from the current 35%. and 2 is the number of tax brackets for all us private citizens, down from the current 6 brashgts. 25 and 10, that s what tax pa r payers would pay in percentages under the new man. where do the savings come from?
first the revenue side the bipartisanship policy center used treasury data from august 2009 and 2010. how much uncle sam will rake in about 203 billion. half of that revenue 100 billion gets imobled up immediately by the major entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid and social security. another 60 billion or so would take care of the folks who do business with the pentagon and the interest we owe on our debt. but then you have got other things like federal salaries and benefits almost $15 billion. we want to give a helping hand for the nation s 14 million unemployed people. that costs us about 13 billion. there is something called temporary assistance for needy families. aka welfare. we also want to send out those checks to our active duty soldiers and fund our veterans programs and what about irs refunds? we wouldn t want those to come to a halt. the federal government for the month of august would face a short fall of $160 billion. which bills would we likely pay first? it would be
nation takes in and also the bills it must pay out he could potentially face a slew of important but agonizing budgetary decisions. first the revenue side the bipartisanship policy center used treasury data from august 2009 and 2010. how much uncle sam will rake in about 203 billion. half of that revenue 100 billion gets imobled up immediately by the major entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid and social security. another 60 billion or so would take care of the folks who do business with the pentagon and the interest we owe on our debt. but then you have got other things like federal salaries and benefits almost $15 billion. we want to give a helping hand for the nation s 14 million unemployed people. that costs us about 13 billion. there is something called temporary assistance for needy families. aka welfare. we also want to send out those checks to our active duty soldiers and fund our veterans programs and what about irs refunds? we wouldn t want those to come to a halt. the fed