The administration is supposedly proposing a budget that includes a 54 billion dollar increase in defense spending coupled with 54 billion in cuts to programs like the Environmental Protection Agency, School Lunches, PBS, and Foreign Aid. The President, knowing what partially comprises his political base, is not going to tackle entitlement reform in social security and medicare. Also missing are any details of Mr. Trumps one trillion dollar infrastructure program.
We as a country have to ask what are priorities should be. Is a 54 billion dollar increase in defense spending (where we as a country have a military that is bigger than at least the next seven nations combined) better spent cleaning up our environment, feeding hungry children, providing cost effective educational television, and sensible investments in assisting other nations? While Social Security and Medicare are in a sound financial position, should not painless reforms like gradually raising the retirement age and increasing the maximum payroll contribution for the richest Americans be enacted. Should we be debating another round of supply-side tax cuts which have never historically worked in the long term or a jobs program through the President's infrastructure program that has been nowhere to be seen?
Again, what should be our priorities?
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/321287-trump-to-ask-for-major-epa-state-cuts-to-boost-military-spending-reports
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