Social Security

[Bengalzona]

(10-18-2018, 12:50 PM)Benton Wrote: What good use?

Current deficit spending is largely created by maintaining military action against... well, somebody... and not setting aside dollars to pay for it. We had tax cuts and war spending at the same time, which led to massive deficits. 

So, we're going to not pay people the money they've given to the government in good faith that it would be there so that we can blow up mud huts in the Middle East at a cost of about $1.5 million per hut. As a side note, it costs roughly $0 to build a mud hut. Going on a side rant here, but — to date — every taxpayer  in the US has spent at least $24,000 on blowing up mud huts.

Yeah. I wonder what would have happened to the deficit if Roosevelt and crew had decided to do a comparable tax cut right in the middle of World War II?