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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The national debt is being used to justify spending cuts - but do these cuts actually reduce it?

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NPR's reporting shows the contracts DOGE has terminated and spending it has frozen largely reflect policy disagreements with the Biden administration rather than waste, fraud or abuse. www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n ...

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-- Alex Leff (@alexleff.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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... Elon Musk has sold his "Department of Government Efficiency" on a two-plank platform: The first is that there is waste in government. The second is that Donald Trump was elected to root it out, and that Musk is the man to do it.

The first claim is certainly true. Look anywhere in the federal government with a powerful enough microscope and you will find waste. The White House said the government was spending $8 million on subscriptions to Politico, for example, which does seem a hefty amount for taxpayers to fork over (could some departments have shared?). Infrastructure projects are plagued with cost and time overruns, too. And don't even get me started on added health care costs.

The second of Musk's propositions may not be quite so apt, however. That's because in the two months DOGE has had to find the fat in government and cut it out -- with nearly unchecked power to do so -- it has done remarkably little of impact. In fact, Musk may be increasing bloat, rather than reducing it. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 01:36 PM | Reply

... but do these cuts actually reduce it? ...

The cuts to the IRS may actually increase the Federal deficit as there will be fewer audits of the wealthy.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 09:13 PM | Reply

When you get rid of all the bias and spin in the explanations given by this article (I mean, they don't even bring up compound interest as a VERY relevant piece of the puzzle in savings over time...something even an Econ freshman knows), you come down to the same fact that is impossible to get around. No matter what you do, prices will skyrocket for American consumers. You want more corporate tax? Guess who pays for that...it isn't the corporations. It's the consumer. Try coming up with a valid solution instead of spewing trash that has already been proven IN REALITY BY OTHER COUNTRIES that does not work and only causes more problems.

In the end, no matter what we do, to stop our debt from making us insolvent, it's going to take DRASTIC changes that WILL impact Americans negatively. While liberals are content with pushing the problem down the road, Reps at least have crossed the line and committed political suicide to try to fix the problem. Liberals just want to live in their fantasy land of solutions that don't work but sound good because they meet our ideology.

Of course, DR lib kids will just immediately resort to name calling. Which just proves my point anyways, so carry on.

#3 | Posted by humtake at 2025-04-30 12:03 PM | Reply

"No matter what you do, prices will skyrocket for American consumers."

Prices are skyrocketing for just one reason: Trump Tariffs.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-30 12:14 PM | Reply

"In the end, no matter what we do, to stop our debt from making us insolvent"

You still don't get it.

It's better for Trump if our debt makes us insolvent.

It's weird how the self-proclaimed Republican Economic Geniuses couldn't figure that out when they elected the Debt King.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-30 12:20 PM | Reply

So all Musk accomplished was making our government agencies FUBAR.

Everything thing Trump or his sycophants touch turns to s*&@

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-01 12:46 AM | Reply

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