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| Real solid and fixed ceiling |
-- The impending tax hikes seem to have been preventing them from supporting increase or maintaining the same level of spending. Moreover, people are sick and tired of do-nothing-Congress over budget. This Administration has not passed the budget for years, and the President's budget was voted down 97-0 last year.
When the lawmakers spend our tax money, they get a bit of it or get some say in the project and where the money goes. It is not easy to cut budget and even talk about cutting spending. While during the election, neither of the parties could not pick up the subject, the tax and fee hikes which are already implemented tilted the public opinion to cutting a bit.
While pension is of a concern to people who is nearing the retirement age, those who are required to pay for it are more concerned of its sustainability. Low paying job which does not provide healthcare coverage is particularly of a concern. Who pay for those who has no health coverage?
-- Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) is to retire from the Senate.
-- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) claims the US government spends more than a trillion dollars for anti-poverty programs. His calculation includes Medicaid and Pell Grant.
It might be said that he was typically acting like an angry old white male in its full sense. Too much spending, wasting tax money for nothing but no apparent reasons but buying votes, which they themselves do whenever that opportunities are offered.