Let's begin by experimentally eliminating salary, health, and other benefits now paid for Representatives and Senators. See if that lowers the gov't's cost burden.
Yup. Oil and farm subsidies are going nowhere. Governments can intervene in markets, so long as they're blessing the *right* markets. Same could be said of FEMA flood insurance programs keeping the I-10 corridor in the south's housing market propped up at affordable rates via cheaper home owners insurance rates. Same with putting military and government bases in states like Mississippi and Alabama where federal/military employment makes up a huge chunk of their middle class. You take those government subsidies away and whole chunks of the southern/midwest economy collapse.
Today’s GOP wants to eliminate all government services and subsidies except ones that benefit themselves or their donors.
Let's begin by experimentally eliminating salary, health, and other benefits now paid for Representatives and Senators. See if that lowers the gov't's cost burden.
Yup. Oil and farm subsidies are going nowhere. Governments can intervene in markets, so long as they're blessing the *right* markets. Same could be said of FEMA flood insurance programs keeping the I-10 corridor in the south's housing market propped up at affordable rates via cheaper home owners insurance rates. Same with putting military and government bases in states like Mississippi and Alabama where federal/military employment makes up a huge chunk of their middle class. You take those government subsidies away and whole chunks of the southern/midwest economy collapse.