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Originally Posted by ASAP
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.
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Having worked with government much of my career (state and federal), I am certain there is a lot of opportunity to cut costs without affecting programs. Huge inefficient administration costs (just one example, look at how the ratio of admins to teachers has changed over the last 40 years at all levels of ed). There are also some programs that can go, and some stupid stuff but I don’t think that is as big as the headlines might suggest.
Cutting this will be MUCH harder than anyone expects. It is very entrenched and extremely hard to make process changes in government, because they really don’t think that way.