Senate to vote on Paul's balanced budget plan
Source: Politico
The Senate is expected to vote this week on a budget proposal from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that would severely curtail federal spending, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The measure would balance the budget within five years. But its spending cuts in future years are so steep that the plan is highly unlikely to pass. The budget needs 50 votes to move forward, but Republicans control only 51 seats, and several center-right members are unlikely to support such strict spending cuts.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/15/rand-paul-budget-senate-589013
SWBTATTReg
(22,118 posts)5 years! It takes a person to pay off a 30 year mortgage in 30 years, and for most people, it's pushing it.
Why is he pushing such a unrealistic goal is beyond me, and he's wasting everyone's time with this nonsense.
Are you a senator or not? Are you stupid or not? Do you read news of the real world or not? Are you even on the same planet as the rest of us are on or not?
Stupid and ignorant. Another reason to not ever support this guy for a run at the presidency if he should run again (lost miserably too).
Midnight Writer
(21,762 posts)Make7
(8,543 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Let them take vote, another November gift for democrats
AZ8theist
(5,461 posts)Is a MASSIVE TAX INCREASE on the 1%.
PERIOD.
You wanna "make America great again?"......
How about returning to the tax structure and rates of the 1950's????