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Originally Posted by Watching The World Burn
Certainly tariffs could bring in additional revenues (assuming those tariffed products are still purchased rather than the domestic counterpart), but I thought the whole idea behind DOGE was to cut government bloat without impacting the stream of dollars collected from taxpayers? If so, their overall amount collected shouldn't really be impacted, but they should have a significantly reduced cost across departments, allowing the same amount of dollars to be deployed differently (ie. increased military spending, reduce deficit, etc). Isn't that what they are trying to do with DOGE?
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You are correct... except there is no room to slash enough to even remotely put a dent in the deficit and its growing day by day. The largest expenses are SS and defense and those aren't getting touched... not sure what will be cut honestly lol. We are at a crossroads where taxes have to be raised... but they wont be so options like tarrifs etc are now in work.