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Those who say 100% of the US budget pays for welfare are wrong.

@freepatriot

No, it's just three-quarters of the budget that goes to welfare, entitlements, and subsidies.

However a lot of the remaining quarter has been converted into the same by regulations.

Those who say 100% of the US budget pays for welfare are wrong.

You're right about the present system, but it could be changed.

Cease to enforce usurious contracts, and no one will buy interest-bearing bonds.

Or enforce the original Westminster principle of "no parliament may bind its successors" and then every election would be a sovereign default

If you cannot have freedom and a balanced budget then why did the USA have freedom and a balanced budget in 1835?

@freepatriot

You cannot have both democracy and a balanced budget

The people vote for "free" (debt spending) stuff.

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Americans think that warrantless NSA wiretapping is constitutional.

Communists say that solar power must be mandatory, Nazis say that solar power must be banned, and Libertarians say that solar power should be optional, but what you think doesn't matter because the elites have already decided for you.

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