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Finding a solution is way beyond my pay grade, but cutting from the poor to give to the rich is not the answer. Right now, in my area and city, they close the hospital and all related doctors’ offices owned by the same Hospital due to Medicaid cuts and monies not paid to the hospital, so they shut down. The other hospital in central Maine 20 miles away is having the same economical finance trouble for the same reasons.
I am not rich nor are my grown middle class children who can breathe a little cause of these tax breaks. Cutting entitlements is not great, I hate it. But until there are alternatives I do not think penalizing the producers is a good plan.
I understand if you’re embarrassed to answer.
Understood.
Other news today…
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Gee it’s not because home prices have gone stupid due to massive inflation pressure from ever expanding spending by government is driving prices up because of increasing deficit spending destroying the value on your dollars.
No it couldn’t be that. Ask Kevin.
I’ve been working Dave.
That’s all RW propaganda, or as you call it, fake news.
Next. 
Well, Mike, yes it could be that, although not the only reason, but a big reason for it.
And it’s both parties that are responsible for it. I just hope the Republicans in the Senate that are against this disastrous big beautiful bill, will be able to stick to their moral compass and shoot it down and come up with a bill that at least balances the budget. 36+ Trillion will come back to get us all eventually.
Although I am a firm believer that able bodied people who collect food stamps and welfare should have to work for those benefits. 
Sure, as Trump is certainly not a doctor, researcher. Taylor Swift could tell me about inspecting electrical panels, but I’d trust what Dave Fetty says on that topic first, in part because of the CMI after his name.
EXACTLY! The Atlantic is the poster child for “Fake News”
Did you see me blame a particular party? NOPE
I would point out that deficit hawks tend to be only from one party.
The other is spend 'til you’re dead as long as you get yours.
Have a nice day.
Your rational friend- Mike
Trump pushes Walmart to absorb tariff increases. The media erupts.
But then something happens. Trump’s plan works. No one will point to it, so I will.
Walmart’s strategy is simple. The company makes sure not to over-source its products from foreign countries.
Rather, Walmart gets about two-thirds of its products from U.S. suppliers. And the company is taking steps to increase that percentage so it can keep its prices low.
https://www.thestreet.com/retail/walmart-ceo-shares-stealth-plan-to-avoid-tariff-increases
I never said you blamed any party, but I did, because they both are to blame for our current debt situation.
Back when The Republican Party was still The Republican Party, they were indeed the party of deficit hawks, not any more. RW Conservatism unfortunately is a thing of the past, and as proof one needs to look no further than the Big Beautiful Bill that Congress just passed, that the CBO predicted to add Trillions more to the debt. That’s going in the wrong direction.
Have a great day!
Your common sense friend - Kevin
Adding more than $3 trillion to the debt when our nation’s finances are already on an unsustainable path would be unwise. Lawmakers should go back to the drawing board and work on a bill that reduces deficits, not adds to them.
Democrats purged any of their kind with a (D) after their name.
You voted for them anyway.
CBO scoring goes out 10 years. It’s dumb to rely on that projection.
Did you care when CBO scored the bogus “Inflation reduction act” which had the opposite effect?
Democrats only solution is to raise taxes on everyone pretending “the rich” don’t pay their “fair share”
Get a clue Kevin.
I agree.
But, look what happens when you attempt to reduce the size of the Government’s workforce. The country went batcrap crazy in opposition.
Look what happens when you attempt to reduce entitlement spending. It became a morality issue with Democrats quoting scripture in opposition (boy, that was convenient but also naive).
I, as are you, am waiting for the next big idea.
Meanwhile, I will support the lower and middle class tax relief. The tax burden on us is unsustainable.
And the MAGA cult has hijacked and destroyed the Republican Party and converatism as we know it, and I think it’s safe to say you voted for them anyway.
It’s not just me who has serious doubts about how these clown are running the country.
“Consumer confidence declined for a fifth consecutive month in April, falling to levels not seen since the onset of the COVID pandemic,” said Stephanie Guichard, Senior Economist, Global Indicators at The Conference Board . “The decline was largely driven by consumers’ expectations. The three expectation components—business conditions, employment prospects, and future income—all deteriorated sharply, reflecting pervasive pessimism about the future. Notably, the share of consumers expecting fewer jobs in the next six months (32.1%) was nearly as high as in April 2009, in the middle of the Great Recession. In addition, expectations about future income prospects turned clearly negative for the first time in five years, suggesting that concerns about the economy have now spread to consumers worrying about their own personal situations. However, consumers’ views of the present have held up, containing the overall decline in the Index.”
