Jerry Shenk: Social Security demagoguery
insurancenewsnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insurancenewsnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
do you think that would fly? i don t. it is just an excuse to allow cuts to medicare, cuts to food stamps at a time when people are hurting to make the kind of adjustments the ryan plan does. i think it s cruel, heartless and i don t know if you agree, but gives the democrats an issue at the election. critical thing is this is a resolution. this is not a budget. what people don t understand, the process is there is mandated programs and entitlement programs. they are getting out of hand. we have a $3.9 trillion, $18 trillion in debt and only about half a trillion left in revenue. we have to bring it back together again. the president abdicated more spending, higher taxes and obviously, it s a different direction. let s pick up on what we heard the president say. the ryan s budget proposal is saying tax cuts to households making $1 million plus per year and raise taxes on middle class with children.
cuts to investments that help our economy create jobs like education and scientific research. instead of throwing billions of dollars each year at these programs with no measurable end results, let s give states and localities the flexibility they need to develop targeted plans to help low income families, young folks, those with disabilities, and of course, the unemployed, the long-term unemployed and the underemployed. on our political panel to discuss this fox news contributors doug shoen and ed rollins who headed ronald reagan s 1984 campaign. ed, i want to start with you. what do you think about congressman scott s notion giving states more power? someone who believes smaller government, there is nothing wrong with that. too much stuff has been pulled to washington. we ve got a lot of republican governors that have done great things. i would argue that is a good part of this plan.
where is he going wrong? both parties are going wrong because we don t have a balanced plan. we had a balanced budget plan a few years ago, the bowles-simpson plan that sadly didn t get enough votes in the committee itself to go to the floor of the congress. the president didn t support it. republicans didn t support it. if we had a balanced approach to reigning in entitlements, cutting spending and lowering the tax rate at the same type we broaden the base, we could do what senator scott was talking about, achieve president obama s goals in a way arguably much fairer to all. ryan is one of the better thinkers we have in our party. i don t agree with everything in the bill. a lot of tea members of congress don t agree. at least in ten years $5 trillion is cut somewhere. i think at the end of the day that s the debate. we have to rein it back. the answer is not raising taxes. the well-to-do who pay most
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.