U.S. budget deficit running over 40 percent higher than last year. Federal spending up 10%. | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72940906 United States 02/17/2019 07:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The federal budget deficit in December totaled $13.5 billion, helping to push the deficit for the first three months of this budget year up 41.8 percent from the same period the previous year. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77383848 The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the budget deficit from October through December totals $318.9 billion, up from a deficit of $225 billion for the same three months in the previous year. So far this budget year, tax revenue is up a tiny 0.2 percent, reflecting the impacts of the tax cuts passed in 2017. Spending is up 9.6 percent. Total government receipts were $771.2 billion for the first three months of this budget year, a gain of 0.2 percent. Outlays totaled $1.09 trillion, up 9.6 percent from the first three months of the 2018 budget year. [link to www.pbs.org (secure)] Governments spending is full throttle! |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77383848 Australia 02/17/2019 07:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly' "It can be done. ... It will take place and it will go relatively quickly. ... If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing ... you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country." --Donald Trump campaign promise |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76536608 France 02/17/2019 07:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly' Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77383848 "It can be done. ... It will take place and it will go relatively quickly. ... If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing ... you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country." --Donald Trump campaign promise Trump also said he would “freeze the budget,” which has obviously not happened. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76923886 United States 02/17/2019 09:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When Trump would do those rally's and I've been to 2 of them. He would say shit like and we are going to rebuild our military. Even as a Veteran and the audience, didn't really give a shit. I never supported that and I don't think that was ever supported fully. Why was Trump pushing that agenda? What a farce. 700 Billion in military spending to a totally broke country. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75758325 United States 02/18/2019 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | what did they do? they increased spending by 100% on year 1. Before year 2 had even begun, the company had nearly doubled its monthly revenue. in regards to large organizations, it quite literally takes money to SAVE money. |
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1-2-Follow User ID: 77386678 United States 02/18/2019 10:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah well as soon as trump was cutting spending, the left and right both lost their mind, but short term memory doesnt allow you all to recall that. Remember when they cut nasa like 0.00001% and everyone said nasa was shutting down and trump was hitler for doing it? Last Edited by 1-2-Follow on 02/18/2019 10:21 PM Articles and "news" from liberal media shall now be known as catnip for libtards. Truth is schilling in the empire of retards. "Yep but for now we dub you toast guy." - AC520845 *PROCLAIMED PROPHET OF THE DOW* ® Let me know when the climate STOPS changing, then i'll be worried. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73966839 United States 02/18/2019 10:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah well as soon as trump was cutting spending, the left and right both lost their mind, but short term memory doesnt allow you all to recall that. Quoting: 1-2-Follow Remember when they cut nasa like 0.00001% and everyone said nasa was shutting down and trump was hitler for doing it? Since Trump took office, federal spending is up 10%. |
1-2-Follow User ID: 77386678 United States 02/18/2019 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah well as soon as trump was cutting spending, the left and right both lost their mind, but short term memory doesnt allow you all to recall that. Quoting: 1-2-Follow Remember when they cut nasa like 0.00001% and everyone said nasa was shutting down and trump was hitler for doing it? Since Trump took office, federal spending is up 10%. I realize that. Its one thing im not happy about but i really didnt expect him to be the most conservative spender as i dont believe he is by definition a "conservative" anyway, which is a good thing in many ways. He is more of a creating bigger business to cover bigger spending capitalist. Im just saying, any time he mentions cutting departments/spending people lose their shit about it, so i dont expect it to come up much during this presidency. People like to talk the talk like they want to cut spending, but arent ready to walk the walk Last Edited by 1-2-Follow on 02/18/2019 10:48 PM Articles and "news" from liberal media shall now be known as catnip for libtards. Truth is schilling in the empire of retards. "Yep but for now we dub you toast guy." - AC520845 *PROCLAIMED PROPHET OF THE DOW* ® Let me know when the climate STOPS changing, then i'll be worried. |
Jake User ID: 76890717 United States 02/18/2019 10:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 300 billion a year on illegal immigrants Trump is right, something must be done Evil controls the ignorant... Climate change is a hoax so is the vax you have been fear-porned into compliance! Definition Satan from the bible: Satan (Rev 12:7) exercising his subtle (indirect) impact on heathen governments (powers) – i.e. accomplishing his hellish agenda from "behind the scenes." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 61002033 Singapore 02/24/2019 04:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So here is his first brilliant solution to increase revenue and offset some of the debt: Thread: Trump considers raising the federal gas tax |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75971893 Australia 03/05/2019 12:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly' Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77383848 "It can be done. ... It will take place and it will go relatively quickly. ... If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing ... you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country." --Donald Trump campaign promise Trump also said he would “freeze the budget,” which has obviously not happened. Played well during the electio. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77430301 United States 03/05/2019 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah well as soon as trump was cutting spending, the left and right both lost their mind, but short term memory doesnt allow you all to recall that. Quoting: 1-2-Follow Remember when they cut nasa like 0.00001% and everyone said nasa was shutting down and trump was hitler for doing it? Spin, spin, spin. :eoiclol: |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77430301 United States 03/05/2019 01:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Its Obama's fault. We are still spending over 700 billion dollars a year for that crappy program. Also lots of interest on that 8 trillion he added to the debt. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77429552 Forgot, the program of Obama care. The program Trump promised to repeal and replace? |
CSnow User ID: 74827762 United States 03/05/2019 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why was Trump pushing that agenda? What a farce. 700 Billion in military spending to a totally broke country. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76923886 I've never cared for the idea of throwing money at a problem, cause, group, endeavor. Even a wall that isn't carefully supervised and, when it comes to contractors/builders, operationally transparent. . |
CSnow User ID: 74827762 United States 03/05/2019 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Keep fighting wars to line the pockets of the few while China watches patiently. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76111205 I've liked Trump's principled isolationism as he's promoted in the past. However, I know he's up against a lot of pro-big-nanny people on both the left and right who don't mind a bit of US-buttinsky in the way foreign affairs are handled by the federal government. Beware of Big Nanny Know-it-alls and Do-gooders in the international scene. They're the ones who often don't mind traveling down that road to hell paved with supposedly - supposedly - good intentions. . |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75282507 United States 03/05/2019 02:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm so old that I can remember true conservatives who were deficit hawks, and the Tea Party. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76524195 Now look who is bankrupting us. I'm not worried. Trump has bankrupted six companies, so he has a lot of experience with this issue. Ignorant, dumb-ass comment! |