As a practical matter, the current GOP agenda isn't so much about hard money or even lower top marginal rates as it is about slashing safety-net programs.
Without more revenue, we're guaranteed an eventual debt crisis, and at that point government will slash safety-net programs:For decades, conservatives have been trying to "starve the beast"—choke off the federal government's revenue stream so that rising deficits would force Congress to cut spending.
Currently, at least 27 states are facing budget gaps and some have already slashed safety-net programs.
Kristof provides neither research nor anecdotal evidence supporting the claim, but he nevertheless thinks Americans should seriously consider the very real problem, especially as we think about slashing social safety net provisions this month.
More breaks for the wealthy would require slashing social safety net programs for the 99percentt -- Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, child nutrition.
Of course, if talking points aren't your thing, then you can always read about ways to cut the federal budget without slashing the safety net -- but we're feeling feisty this week, so let's get started, shall we?
Slashing social safety nets in order to give tax breaks to the top 1/10 of the "One Percent, they wage war on small countries not because the nations have attacked us but because weapons and fossil fuel corporations make a fortune from it.
President Donald Trump's administration is aiming to continue this trend, reversing an Obama-era rule that guaranteed contraception access to working women while pushing a budget that defunds Planned Parenthood and slashes safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps.
But both major parties have agreed to slash the safety net.
With their slashed shirts, safety pins and bondage straps, everything about them screamed – stand back before you are consumed in the flames.
