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2 things I'd like to clear up:
1) As a Christian, I don't get my morals from another human - not Trump, not Huckabee, none of them. I don't care if someone who calls themselves a Christian does something terrible or not - it will never affect or adjust my moral principles. All humans are broken - so you can post bad deeds that people do who call themselves Christians all day and it won't shake the foundation I try to stand on. To say its hypocrisy that we can be Christians and call ourselves Christians when some person or many people do bad things is a mis-use of the word hypocrisy. It doesn't have anything to do with it.
2) On the deficits, the tax cuts didn't do a darned thing to create them. Our tax revenues are GROWING. We have posted the numbers several times on here - spending is growing at 3x the rate of inflation. The largest reason for the deficits is the unfunded liabilities from programs like SS and chiefly Medicare. For example, the average Medicare enrollee put $100,000 inflation adjusted dollars in, but will pull $450,000 out of the program (why we allow such stupidity is exactly the problem). Every month another 10,000 people sign up (sources: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dandia...le-enroll-in-medicare-every-day/#5a93692b3657)
If you do the math on that, it means every month, we add another $35 BILLION to the debt over the life of that person - those are the unfunded liabilities rolling onto our books. EVERY MONTH! So even if we held tax revenue perfectly flat and discretionary spending perfectly flat, our books would still be an utter and complete disaster.
So when you (generic you) read that we have $100 Trillion of unfunded liabilities and want to just roll your eyes that its fake news and fake numbers, its not. Adding up that $35 Billion, month after month after month, out over the next few decades adds up to $100 Trillion. Its real, and its coming. Until we restructure those programs to only pay out based on the money thats put in.
1) As a Christian, I don't get my morals from another human - not Trump, not Huckabee, none of them. I don't care if someone who calls themselves a Christian does something terrible or not - it will never affect or adjust my moral principles. All humans are broken - so you can post bad deeds that people do who call themselves Christians all day and it won't shake the foundation I try to stand on. To say its hypocrisy that we can be Christians and call ourselves Christians when some person or many people do bad things is a mis-use of the word hypocrisy. It doesn't have anything to do with it.
2) On the deficits, the tax cuts didn't do a darned thing to create them. Our tax revenues are GROWING. We have posted the numbers several times on here - spending is growing at 3x the rate of inflation. The largest reason for the deficits is the unfunded liabilities from programs like SS and chiefly Medicare. For example, the average Medicare enrollee put $100,000 inflation adjusted dollars in, but will pull $450,000 out of the program (why we allow such stupidity is exactly the problem). Every month another 10,000 people sign up (sources: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dandia...le-enroll-in-medicare-every-day/#5a93692b3657)
If you do the math on that, it means every month, we add another $35 BILLION to the debt over the life of that person - those are the unfunded liabilities rolling onto our books. EVERY MONTH! So even if we held tax revenue perfectly flat and discretionary spending perfectly flat, our books would still be an utter and complete disaster.
So when you (generic you) read that we have $100 Trillion of unfunded liabilities and want to just roll your eyes that its fake news and fake numbers, its not. Adding up that $35 Billion, month after month after month, out over the next few decades adds up to $100 Trillion. Its real, and its coming. Until we restructure those programs to only pay out based on the money thats put in.
