We have mentioned many times before that John was nowhere to be found, with deficit complains for four years, as Tangerine tripled our debt. Crickets.
But let’s just stipulate that Hinderaker is a hypocrite — we all knew that, going in.
No — tonight, I want to point out that as he belly-aches about the deficit, he conveniently ignores that over a quarter of all the federal spending goes to defense-, and defense-related spending. That 1/4 of our budget… is larger than the next nine nations, COMBINED. China, the UK and Russia together are less than half of what we allocate to the US’s total.
Sure, we do a lot — but we could eliminate some weapons research, with Russia so taxed in Ukraine, and China’s economy in need of far more state subsidies… especially in its real estate sector.
We’d never cut troop pay or pensions… but that 25% clearly includes lots of waste. And the safety net programs John wants to attack, in total… are less than 10% of the total federal budget.
So — the truth is… he’s only interested in reducing spending for programs that help people of limited means… because he wants tax cuts on the people with more than $50 million in net worth.
In a word, he wants royal courts to watch peasants… starve. And die young with little or no health care.
But even he admits… fewer than 5% of all American voters agree with him.
Far more would increase taxes on the ultra wealthy rather than cut them.
So yeh — that’s all his piece is really about: pushing a fantasy that the very wealthy are being overtaxed.
No one buys your BS, John. Shut it.
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