Rand Paul has proposed a five year budget plan which moves us from crippling deficits into modest surplus by 2016. It is a formula for dramatic economic recovery and will significantly decrease the scope and size of the federal government. I cannot find the actual document or slide-show or spreadsheets; please add in the comments when available. We do see the MFM / reality breakdown already. Here’s the summary of the plan from Campaign for Liberty:
SPENDING:
· Brings spending near historical average in very first year
– Reduces spending by nearly $4 trillion relative to the President’s budget
– Achieves a $19 billion surplus in FY2016
– Brings all non-military discretionary spending back to FY2008 levels
– Requires the process of entitlement reform, including Social Security and Medicare, with final implementation by FY2016
– Does not change Social Security or Medicare benefits
– Block-grants Medicaid, SCHIP, foods stamps, and child nutrition
· Provides the President’s request for war funding
– Reduces military spending 6 percent in FY2012
· Eliminates four departments:
– Department of Commerce (transfers certain programs)
– Department of Education (preserves Pell grants)
– Department of Housing and Urban Development
– Department of Energy (transfers nuclear research and weapons to Department of Defense)
· Repeals Obamacare
DEFICITS/DEBT:
· Never exceeds $12 trillion in debt held by public
· Creates $2.6 trillion less in deficit spending relative to the President’s Budget
REVENUE:
· Extends all the 2001 and 2003 tax relief
· Permanently patches the alternative minimum tax
· Repeals Obamacare taxes
The MFM, as exemplified by ABC News, paragraph 3:
The proposal also calls for the repeal of “Obamacare,” but leaves entitlements untouched.
I read Requires the process of entitlement reform, including Social Security and Medicare, with final implementation by FY2016
– Does not change Social Security or Medicare benefits
– Block-grants Medicaid, SCHIP, foods stamps, and child nutrition
— as pretty significantly “touching” entitlements. Current retirees will not have their benefits changed, but that we will have entitlement reform, and that reform will be fully implemented by 2016.
Pass this in the House. Make the Senate filibuster it or Obama veto it. This is the right thing to do, it is our path to saving the Republic, and for those spineless careerists forming the herd of the Republican party, it’s how we win in 2012.
I almost didn’t recognize Rand Paul’s name without the phrase “right-wing extremist” close to it.
Make this motherfucker President!
Rand Paul is my hero.
Seen this?
“Education Department officials are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students’ lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special-interest groups to be harassment of some students.” (bolding mine)
Once a child is identified as conservative, they will be harassed and punished until they convert. We have just seen how conservatives are treated once they are identified in Wisconsin.
Nice grades ya got there… would be a shame if something were to happen to them.
Silly rabbit! The 1st amendment isn’t for kids!
Well, in the government’s defense, Stephanie, conservative speech is part of the pathology that is conservatism. There have been studies.
Seen this?
“Education Department officials are … fired.
I’m allowed to dream, no?
Entropy, will happen soon enough… right about the time the Asians cash in and the feds can’t pay their debts.
Q: What do you call 100,000 former federal bureaucrats looking for work?
A: A good start.
Do you recall the troll recently asking “where are the Republican job programs”. Here it is. My WAG: 8-10 million new private sector jobs by 2016 with this budget.
Stephanie: yeah, the Chinese government is now actively promoting gold buying with T.V. commercials. Comrade Citizen can buy as little as a half gram of gold. Let’s see…one half gram per person times 2 billion people. I don’t want to do that math. And the PRC is already the world’s largest gold-mining operation on the planet.
Those would probably be jobs where you’re expected to do stuff, and where you could be fired if you didn’t.
Those are not the jobs the Democrats are looking for.