So, given that there seems to be a large population of people unfortunately voting for Romney and Ryan because of some preconceived notion that Obama "failed the U.S. Economy" (Despite... You know... Having the republican party utterly striking down every single bill he presents) and so they believe they're voting for the "lesser evil". I felt I might as well ask the prominent (usually far right) republicans on this board if they can explain how this budget works.
Let's take a look at their plan, despite their vagueness and avoiding actually explaining any specifics. We managed to get some answers out of them. Here's what we know/what they've said about it:
- Keep the bush tax cuts
- Don't raise taxes on the middle class
- Don't raise taxes on the rich
- Replace Medicare with a "Voucher Program"
- Close "loopholes" in the tax code (not explaining what those loopholes actually are)
- DON'T cut funding to any government programs.
- Add 2 trillion dollars to the defense budget, despite the military not asking for it.
So, can any conservative care to explain how any of that is even remotely mathematically possible? Please, I'm quite interested to know how this magic budget is supposed to keep taxes at their current level, while at the same time not cutting spending to what the middle class considers vital (school, healthcare), adding trillions to the military's budget, and somehow not cut programs vital to the middle class.
If you look at the budget, it's easy to dismiss it as not mathematically possible! I don't understand how anyone thinks it can work! You can't close so many loopholes that it rakes in enough to cover the tax cuts, government spending, and the pointlessly large amount of money they hope to throw at the military!
The fact is, the only way to make this budget "work" would be to gut programs to the middle class so much that they're virtually ineffective.
This budget won't work. That is a simple fact, and if you try adding up the math you'll see that it's impossible.
So, I want to see what some prominent Republicans have to say about this. They always argue that "Obama is so terrible!" yet they don't seem to ever point out why Romney is supposedly better. They say social issues and comments such as "legitimate rape" are just "liberals trying to distract people from the economy", so let's talk about the economy. Let's talk about this plan that is supposedly so much better for people than whatever Obama's trying.