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特朗普会继续布什奥巴马的遗产吗?

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This week, Congress passed a budget calling for increasing federal spending and adding $1.7 trillion to the national debt over the next ten years. Most so-called “fiscal conservatives” voted for this big-spending budget because it allows Congress to repeal some parts of Obamacare via “reconciliation.” As important as it is to repeal Obamacare, it does not justify increasing spending and debt.

It is disappointing, but not surprising, that the Obamacare repeal would be used to justify increasing spending. Despite sequestration’s minor (and largely phony) spending cuts, federal spending has increased every year since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives. Some will attribute this to the fact that the Republican House had to negotiate with a big-spending Democratic president — even though federal spending actually increased by a greater percentage the last time Republicans controlled the White House and Congress than it did under President Obama.

The history of massive spending increases under unified Republican control of government is likely to repeat itself. During the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump came out against reducing spending on “entitlements.” He also called for a variety of spending increases, including spending one trillion dollars on infrastructure.

One positive part of the infrastructure proposals is their use of tax credits to encourage private sector investments. Hopefully this will be the first step toward returning responsibility for building and maintaining our nation’s infrastructure to the private sector.

Unfortunately, the administration appears likely to support increased federal spending on “shovel-ready” jobs. Claims that federal spending helps grow the economy rely on the fallacy of that which is not seen. While everyone sees the jobs and economic growth created by government infrastructure projects, no one sees the greater number of jobs that could have been created had the government not taken the resources out of the hands of private businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs. Despite what some conservatives seem to think, this fallacy applies equally to Republican and Democrat spending.

President-elect Trump has criticized the past two administrations’ reckless foreign policy, and he has publicly shamed the powerful Lockheed Martin company for wasting taxpayer money. Yet, he continues to support increasing the military budget and has called for increased military intervention in the Middle East.

The fact is the United States already spends too much on militarism. Not only does the United States spend more on the military than the combined military budgets of the next eight highest spending countries, but Pentagon waste exceeds the total Russian military budget.

America can no longer afford to waste trillions of dollars on a militaristic foreign policy. Donald Trump should follow-up his attacks on wasteful military spending by dramatically changing our foreign policy and working to cut the Pentagon’s bloated budget.

If the new administration and Congress increase spending, they will need the Federal Reserve to monetize the growing debt. The need for an accommodative monetary policy gives the Federal Reserve and its allies in Congress and in the deep state leverage over the administration. This leverage could be used, for example, to pressure the administration to abandon support for the Audit the Fed legislation.

Fed action can only delay the inevitable day of reckoning. Raising levels of federal spending and debt will inevitably lead to a major economic crisis. This crisis is likely to be reached when concerns over our national debt cause more countries to reject the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. The only way to avoid this crisis is to stop increasing spending and instead begin reducing spending on all aspects of the welfare-warfare state.

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  1. 特朗普会继续布什奥巴马的遗产吗?

    No. Trump will make peace instead of war. And our so called health care system will be improved. I doubt he will reduce the debt but for what it’s worth I think Trump and the Republicans will “audit” the FED. A step in the right direction.

    • 回复: @Anonymous
  2. alexander 说:

    尊敬的保罗博士,

    I believe you have hit another Bulls eye!

    Not only can the United States NOT afford to waste “more” trillions on our Militaristic foreign policies, we cannot afford to pay for the trillions in Militaristic foreign policies we have already SPENT.

    In a different (and somewhat more “sane” world), one could actually imagine our Senators questioning Mr. Tillerson on whether he had any constructive recommendations as to how our government might generate a surplus one day (egads!)….. or even find creative solutions to PAY DOWN the humongous 14.3 trillion in overspending our catastrophic policies of the last 16 years, have already engendered.

    After all, he was the CEO of one of the most profitable companies in the world, wasn’t he ?

    If he can turn a profit for Exxon, maybe he can turn a profit for US.

    But I guess asking a question that might matter to the American people is simply “taboo” on Capitol Hill these days…..

    Isn’t it , Dr Paul?
    .

  3. What cannot be paid will not be paid.

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  4. alexander 说:
    @WorkingClass

    嗨工薪阶层,

    Can you expand on that a bit ?

    Because if we can just print money and not worry about paying for it …why doesn’t the government just cut us both a check for 100 billion dollars ?

    I will even pay some taxes on it…..but since it doesn’t really matter….I won’t pay much.

    • 回复: @WorkingClass
  5. @alexander

    The debt is insurmountable. The remedies are default or monetization. The later, printing money, reaches a vanishing point at which the money becomes worthless.

    • 回复: @alexander
  6. alexander 说:
    @WorkingClass

    Working class,

    Actually the debt is NOT insurmountable right now.

    I can think of four ways to pay it down by half, pretty quickly,which do not involve raising income taxes.

    And there are more ways still.

    Default or monetization are the remedies of last resort.

    So take heart. All is not lost for us, we can rebuild the credit worthiness of the United States.

  7. Anonymous [AKA "Waynelo"] 说:
    @WorkingClass

    I don’t believe so the Trump Muslim ban are the same as the 7 countries from the neoconservative 7 nation 5 year plan that has been the policy for Bush Obama and now Trumps adminstration lmbo

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