"The spending problem is a mountain to tax cuts mole hill."

More ------------.

When you're running a deficit budget, and you write a new tax code giving away $2.3 trillion ...

100% of that $2.3 trillion is NEW BORROWING, therefore NEW SPENDING.

" budget-busting. Aren't you the one that's supposed to be good at math. If Musk's wealth were 100% liquid and ... "

Good God, what a dumfuq.

Nobody is talking about just taxing Elon ... They're talking about folks like Musk paying a lower rate than his executive secretary.

" what's going to seem even stranger is if this organization actually discovers some fraud, waste, and abuse."

Well, that really depends on whether or not you believe stuff like the National Endowment for the Arts is fraud, waste, and abuse, doesn't it?

Elon does, especially if it gets in the way of his tax cuts.

Because, let's be serious, that's what all this is about. Not about cutting out waste, fraud, and abuse. It's about trillions and trillions of dollars given away via new borrowing.

Notice: all the Republican deficit hawks are hiding. Not a single Republican who pretends to be foursquare against more borrowing has made a peep.

" Thune and Johnson vow to take DOGE spending cuts to the next level"

And not with the goal of balancing the budget, of course. The goal is Elon keeping his budget-busting tax cuts.

"That's the million dollar question"

More like the trillion dollar question.

" DJT bought himself the Mayor of NY."

Where are the usual suspects who constantly scream WEAPONIZATION ...

... until the victim has a (D) after their name???

" Arguing against auditing to find waste, fraud and abuse is no way to go through life"

So, do you favor auditing the DoD, or is that waste, fraud, and abuse OK with you?

" 71 years of USAID to Israel would pay for 16.7% of US federal healthcare spending for 1 year."

So basically ... seven decades of peace, paid for by two months of healthcare

Hella bargain.

" is this a "macro" argument?"

No.

But thanks for admitting you don't know what it means.

" I see crap about USAID written but it's just crap from sources not to be taken very seriously."

Their plan is to dismiss 9,400 workers, and keep 600.

How much more serious does it need to be?!?

" are you worried the dems won't put it back in when they have the chance?"

Who's planning on giving Dems a chance? Even if they crush the midterms, Trump won't sign it back into being.

Theatres will close, and programs like Shakespeare in Schools on down will cease to exist.

But Elon will get to keep his tax cuts.

After slashing Social Security, of course.

" Is there any actual evidence of something of substance that's been eliminated?"

The Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center.

Although I'm sure next year's honorees Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock disagree with me.

"All you're doing is taking up for $chitty people like Zed"

Zed was stating macro facts.

"Like you know anything. I opted out of the mrna shot when it was still experimental and then decided I didn't need it since I already had COVID at least once."

Gee..I'm fully vaccinated, and have NEVER had Covid. Seems like I DO know something....

And..."at least once"...you may have had it multiple times? What, you didn't even bother to test???

"I'll bet that, by accident, some actual government waste is discovered"

"I'll bet that, by accident, some actual government waste is discovered and thrown out."

I'll bet that, on purpose, the National Endowment for the Arts will be deemed government waste and thrown out.

"You have his medical records?"

He doesn't need them, if he knows the guy eschews vaccines. Especially if he's speaking in the Macro.

It's like insurance folks knowing it costs more if you're not wearing your seat belt.

"this is quite literally violating the express language of the 14th Amendment"

Just wait: the usual suspects will arrive shortly to explain why the 14th Amendment doesn't mean what it explicitly says.

" eliminating government fraud and waste"

That's not what they're doing, and we both know it. Why do you feel you have to pretend?

"the measles outbreak can most likely be traced back to all the third world "migrants""

You'd be laughed out of a Trustee's meeting. Permanent exile to the children's table.

"the index patient's arrival in Chicago months before illness onset suggests that the disease was acquired locally."

So...Blue is basically pretending the science regarding length of dormancy doesn't exist.

"I can't say (whether or not all folks born before Christ are burning in hell for all eternity). The nature of God has been debated for years."

If that's "the nature" of God, he's a heartless, soulless monster, and doesn't deserve worship. Either an all-knowing, all-loving God created souls knowing their hopeless fate, or your theory is bullschitttt.

My belief is the latter, that one's actions towards their fellow man is the ultimate determination. I can't buy into a God who creates souls for the singular purpose of burning in hell for all eternity because they were purposely and knowingly denied the opportunity. That's the epitome of cruelty.

To me, when Jesus says "you must come through me", he means HIS IDEAL, that of putting GOD first, everyone else tied for second, and NO ONE third.

"seeing as they had a slush fund..."

Objection, your honor. Facts not in evidence.

" ... only through Jesus Christ can your sins be forgiven."

So are you telling us God created millions of souls in the years B.C., knowing they'd burn in hell for all eternity?!?

"So is homosexuality."

Which Leviticus equates with wearing a poly-cotton shirt, or eating a shrimp cocktail.