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Social Security and Medicare are the two biggest Federal programs. If you are not talking about cutting them, you are not talking seriously about cutting government spending. Nothing was stolen from the Social Security trust fund. The surpluses accumulating in the trust fund were used to...

Low-skilled immigrants are needed in the economy as well. There are plenty of low-skilled jobs to fill. We don't need PhD's doing the work in food-processing plants. Your environmental argument is peculiar. Are suggesting that Americans needs to reduce their carbon footprint by decreasing the...

How do parties commit waste? Waste is the result of laws and policies. Changing parties has no effect in and of itself. The US regularly rotates between Republicans and Democrats without changing the amount of waste. Laws can make a difference. Goldwater-Nichols substantially reduced waste in...

Most of your complaints are valid (or even understated with US spending twice as much on healthcare as Japan for worse results), but I don't see any specific recommendations for legislation. For example, the Social Security deficit could be cured by doing the following: 1. Cut benefits 10% 2...

I keep table that has every integer from 1 to 100,000 and its text equivalent. It is useful for a variety of purposes.

Does Rand Paul's list include Social Security, Medicare and Defense? He never seems to talk about cutting significant government programs.

He didn't reverse tariffs he already authorized. Spending went up plenty under Trump even before COVID. Remember that 80% of the Federal budget is Social Security, Medicare and Defense. If you are talking about spending less in those areas, you are not seriously talking about cutting government...

Yes, as both caused inflation we should view the spurt in inflation as being the "Trump-Biden" inflation. The third stimulus bill probably did speed the recovery, but the cost in inflation was greater than the benefit. As for the future, Trump's plans involve greater deficits than Harris's...

Their wages have kept up and more. They are striking to stop automation. Please name the specific policy of Joe Biden that caused inflation. The first two COVID stimulus bills were signed under Trump and were in total larger the Biden's COVID stimulus bill. I think that Biden's stimulus bill...

I assume that Pat and other Trump supporters are cheering the dock strike and thanking the ILA for protecting us from cheap imports. They can tell me how much their standard of living improves now that they will have to pay more.

After the 5 miscarriages (all early in the pregnancy), there were 2 live, healthy births (16 months apart). This is not unusual as the immune system "learns" to not reject the fetus. As my wife was in her 40's at the time, we were monitoring for pregnancy carefully. Many women might not have...

I would rather take my chances with my grandchildren, than the legislature. "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session."--Gideon J. Tucker (1866)

I am glad that you I am glad that you friend could make her own choice. Why should the choice be made by the state government?

I am glad to see that you are pro-choice Pat. Pro-choice means that the woman chooses, it does not mean pro-abortion. I am not sure what you mean when you talk about late-stage abortion. This almost always involves a pregnancy with serious problems where the fetus would not be viable. For...

Do you oppose Trump's proposal for blanket tariffs?

Pat, your "moderate" position is rather strange. If abortion is murder, why would the circumstances and timing of the pregnancy matter. If it is not murder, than anti-abortion laws are outrageous interference in an intimate personal decision. So which is it? And why do you trust the government...

College education is a good example of the harm done by well-intentioned government interventions. In effect that government has transferred money from taxpayers to college administrations. Similarly, a tariff takes money from the general public and transfers it to a group of favored...

Military vehicles have little to due with automotive production. They are made by different companies. But it seems that you agree that tariffs lower the American standard of living. Only the Congress, not the President can abolish the Department of Education. Understand the Congress not the...

The Biden administration should not have kept the tariffs. But now Trump and the socialist wing of the Republican party wants to move further to the left with taxes that raise prices but generate little revenue. It is also worth mentioning the only the Congress can levy tariffs and Trump's...

If somebody punches themself in the face, there is no reason to reciprocate by punching yourself in the face. Chinese companies are not going to eat the tariff increase because if they do so, they will lose money and go out of business. Similarly the importer will need to pass on the tariff to...