Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget

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This may be a repeat of another thread. But the US budget deficit can be fixed. You just need to figure out how. Once you fix it, tell us how you did it. I think the question then is can you sell your fix?


Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
 

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I'm not a memebr of the USA but this seemed ok based on what they boxes said, I also went ahead and saaved an dditional 1 trillion dollars in 2030 :)
 

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Your correct. However the Military budget needs to be cut. There is a lot of waste, and with the Bush imposed Contractors to the Military, is where the waste is. It used to be, the Military supplied its own food to it's members. Now it's based on McDonalds, Burger King, and KFC, who supply the nutrition to our Military. There's much more contractor waste and misuse, that needs to be addressed. That is where the biggest chunk, should be taken out. We don't need commercial fast food chains feeding our troops.
 

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Your correct. However the Military budget needs to be cut. There is a lot of waste, and with the Bush imposed Contractors to the Military, is where the waste is. It used to be, the Military supplied its own food to it's members. Now it's based on McDonalds, Burger King, and KFC, who supply the nutrition to our Military. There's much more contractor waste and misuse, that needs to be addressed. That is where the biggest chunk, should be taken out. We don't need commercial fast food chains feeding our troops.

What, $45 for a case of soda doesn't sound reasonable to you?
 

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Your correct. However the Military budget needs to be cut. There is a lot of waste, and with the Bush imposed Contractors to the Military, is where the waste is. It used to be, the Military supplied its own food to it's members. Now it's based on McDonalds, Burger King, and KFC, who supply the nutrition to our Military. There's much more contractor waste and misuse, that needs to be addressed. That is where the biggest chunk, should be taken out. We don't need commercial fast food chains feeding our troops.

What the hell are you talking about? I mean really what in the hell are you talking about? Fast food chains feeding the military.....what in the hell are you talking about?

If there's something you can reference that would be great. Maybe you know something I, a person who has eaten in military dining facilities for over a decade, do not know.
 

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I, a person who has eaten in military dining facilities for over a decade
ah..just when I need a bit of light relief from heavy political debate along comes an image of eating with the soldiers....showering with the soldiers....(ok, ok, but this is a site for penis obsessives)

didn't I hear an awful lot of extraordinarily expensive contracts had been given to civilian companies in the occupied countries?
 
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ah..just when I need a bit of light relief from heavy political debate along comes an image of eating with the soldiers....showering with the soldiers....(ok, ok, but this is a site for penis obsessives)

didn't I hear an awful lot of extraordinarily expensive contracts had been given to civilian companies in the occupied countries?

Shhhh we don't talk about that. That's private enterprise and those are the 'makers' in society not the 'takers'. You can see from the budget puzzle lots of taxpayer money flowing to private enterprise virtually unchecked.
 

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This may be a repeat of another thread. But the US budget deficit can be fixed. You just need to figure out how. Once you fix it, tell us how you did it. I think the question then is can you sell your fix?


Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget
Some of the stuff on it is outdated, but here is my solution. Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Fairly balanced I think. Doesn't raise taxes in general, and preserves most social programs, but doesn't just hand out benefits like candy either.
 
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ah..just when I need a bit of light relief from heavy political debate along comes an image of eating with the soldiers....showering with the soldiers....(ok, ok, but this is a site for penis obsessives)

didn't I hear an awful lot of extraordinarily expensive contracts had been given to civilian companies in the occupied countries?

What does that have to do with AM's positing that somehow fast food joints were providing meals to the Military at the taxpayer's expense?
 

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Some of the stuff on it is outdated, but here is my solution. Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Fairly balanced I think. Doesn't raise taxes in general, and preserves most social programs, but doesn't just hand out benefits like candy either.
Mine was pretty similar. Though I didnt tax the banks because they are already not lending enough. The main point of mine that would be hard to sell is an increase in the payroll tax and more taxes on those that make over 1 million.
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Didnt touch jobs, social security, investment, or banks. Also should result in lower taxes for everybody (but no loopholes/fewer deductions for the wealthy).
 

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Mine was pretty similar. Though I didnt tax the banks because they are already not lending enough. The main point of mine that would be hard to sell is an increase in the payroll tax and more taxes on those that make over 1 million.
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Didnt touch jobs, social security, investment, or banks. Also should result in lower taxes for everybody (but no loopholes/fewer deductions for the wealthy).
Yeah, I was debating over taxing the banks, but I decided to do so because of how it was worded. Basically, irresponsible financial institutions caused a lot of trouble back in the Clinton and Bush administrations with some risky loans and deals, so I thought that the riskier behaviors shoud be taxed some. If nothing else, having a system like that in place would mean spelling out what is and isn't risky for everybody. Would make for smarter, more informed investments all around.

In the meantime, risky behavior being met with higher taxes would mean that the people responsible for future disasters would at least be helping to pay for it.
 

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Shhhh we don't talk about that. That's private enterprise and those are the 'makers' in society not the 'takers'. You can see from the budget puzzle lots of taxpayer money flowing to private enterprise virtually unchecked.

I'm trying to be vague for privacy reasons, but I know someone well who worked for a government agency that would "meet it's budget" by laying off full time employees and replacing them with private contractors because private contractors didn't count towards their budget. Many of the contractors were foreign and they got paid a lot more, which really annoyed me. The principle of the thing bothered me, laying off citizens to replace them with overpaid non-citizens using our tax dollars, just to make it look like they were meeting budget cuts on paper. That needs to stop.
 

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Yeah, I was debating over taxing the banks, but I decided to do so because of how it was worded. Basically, irresponsible financial institutions caused a lot of trouble back in the Clinton and Bush administrations with some risky loans and deals, so I thought that the riskier behaviors shoud be taxed some. If nothing else, having a system like that in place would mean spelling out what is and isn't risky for everybody. Would make for smarter, more informed investments all around.

In the meantime, risky behavior being met with higher taxes would mean that the people responsible for future disasters would at least be helping to pay for it.

Deregulation allowed the banking crisis. Clinton even admitted that it was a bad idea.

Regulations such as requiring banks to hold a certain percentage of their loans in cash would prevent risky loans. The banks that had internal regulations requiring them to keep 30% of their loans in cash meant that they were more invested in those risks, and as a result, those banks made fewer risky loans, so we have evidence that it works. The banks that did not, and they were not required to by law, they took greater risks and we all know how that ended.