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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 02:32 PM
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3. I'm for that! Let's start with removing the idea that the rich
are entitled to not pay taxes proportional to what everyone else has to pay. Where did they get the idea they were entitled to this?

Next, let's cut in half the military budget. There no bigger entitlement program in the history of the world than the Military budget.

Then I'm for raising SS benefits since retirees earned those benefits and the money they paid into the fund, belongs to them. Increasing SS benefits would help to stimulate the economy as retirees are likely to spend those raises. A sort of stimulus package, except that they EARNED it.

Then we should end the wars. No country is entitled to spend the trillions this country is spending on war when it is only serving to drain this economy. Another entitlement program that needs to go.

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