Hearing the Falconer #9 ~ 17-March-2019 ~ Is Trump's Budget Too Extreme?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....
from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, 1919

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.
The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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17-March-2019: Trump's extreme budget proposal
Is the Trump budget too extreme?
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Too extreme.

The virtue of political moderation can be applied to every issue, incuding the budget.

What would a moderate budget look like? How about no big spending increases and no big spending cuts, just keep spending approximately level from year to year.

Since the United States has an extreme amount of debt right now we should ideally hold total spending growth each year to something less than expected GDP growth. By doing this the deficit will gradually shrink over time, and eventually disappear. Once that happens we will finally have a surplus again, like we did in the late 1990's, and we will have another chance to pay down the debt.

According to this article, the current budget proposal from Trump includes a $1.5 trillion CUT for Medicaid. That seems EXTREME!

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The "Hearing the Falconer" Library

Books for Indpendent Thinkers

Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today

The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It

Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics

The Deliberate Moderate: Influencing From the Middle

Eisenhower: The White House Years

The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison

Lincoln

Reflections of a Radical Moderate