Do you think congress may have forgotten how their job works? Like I remember learning the importance of congress in middle school. Power of purse and all that. Why is the congress petitioning the president for legislation? Can we please replace the congressmen who don’t understand what their job description is? Every day in the news its just “Legislator asking someone else to do their job” “Legislature confused on how laws are made” “legislator claiming the presidents office is just better at making laws”
Spending 1.2 Trillion fixing roads, airports and ports? Thats like literally the purpose of forming a government. Im not sure where you got the 4T from. That was the tax deficit spending included in the BBB 2025.
Yes we spend 900 billion a year on interest so where are we coming up with 200B for hand outs?
Yes the people keep voting morons into congress and have set up perverse incentives for them to rob us. Yes it still makes me upset every time.
So yes some of us Americans do care about the congress being able to pass a sensible budget. The debt won’t stop growing if they don’t stop giving everyone handouts. I deeply care that the next 3 generations will still be paying for the Iraq War and Bush Tax cuts, now they get Iran and trump tax cuts.
No I have no idea how to stop the insanity.
Are you sure you are the majority? I can empathize with people who do care about suitability of finances but are stuck with people who dont.
I cannot defend the population that cannot understand that a tariff is consumption tax. But like maybe 20% of us still do. And that’s like 70 million people.
Well heres a far left economist who says they are basically a VAT tax. However he outlines that exporters do absorb some of the cost, but its mainly been US business absorbing the tariffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYqvK_oVN8
If you’re a left leaning person isnt that good, cant the government now distribute that money and cut less programs, as corporations absorb much of the cost? Obviously the Trump tax cuts are where much of it will be going, but if a left leaning politician did it and removed those tax cuts wouldnt it be a net positive?
No if I were the majority we would not be here. They don’t really teach finance and economics in public school. Balanced budgets haven’t been a popular platform since 2001. They stopped talking about it in 2012.
The average American can barely fucking read, so you better believe they can’t do math well. They certainly don’t deal in complex problems or multiple orders of effects.
Our education system failed so hard so fast that the majority of the population is blissfully ignorant on monetary and fiscal policy. I mean, these people don’t even understand the progressive tax code they’re under. They will pay taxes for 40 years of their life without fully understanding how a tax bracket works.