Paul Ryan, has indicated that some sacred cows might be up for slaughter.-Including MEDICARE

[riversedge]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/21/how-to-pay-for-donald-trumps-trillion-dollar-agenda-congressional-republicans-arent-saying/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_agenda-1130a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

How to pay for Donald Trump’s trillion-dollar agenda? Congressional Republicans aren’t saying.



By Mike DeBonis and Kelsey Snell



November 21 at 6:30

President-elect Donald Trump intends to launch a broad legislative agenda that includes cutting taxes, rolling back the Affordable Care Act, growing the military and rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure.

The question is how congressional Republicans, after eight years of apocalyptic warnings about the growing national debt, will respond to the dire fiscal implications of proposals that would likely send the deficit soaring.

Taken together, the Trump agenda stands to drain hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the federal balance sheet. His proposed tax cut alone, according to independent analysts, could cost the Treasury as much as $7.2 trillion over a decade.

Some Republicans in Congress, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, have indicated that some sacred cows might be up for slaughter. Those include federal entitlement programs such as Medicare, long considered a “third rail” of American politics, that Trump himself has shied away from touching.
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[HassleCat]

1. Put those old people on the ice floe.

We need more billion dollar weapons.

[SHRED]

2. BURN IT ALL DOWN

I double dog dare you.

[Turbineguy]

3. The republican party needs to harm as many Americans as possible.

At least the Soviets pretty much stayed over there.

We're gonna miss Hitler too.

[duffyduff]

11. Don't think the party is up to committing suicide. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

4. The trick is not to take away SS and Medicare from current recipients, but...

set it up for the future when we're all dead and the next generation gets screwed.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. But they have constituents

Does anyone seriously want to get rid of Medicare and Social Security, other than businesses who don't like having to contribute their 7.65%?

[duffyduff]

10. It is only business that doesn't want to pay its half of the FICA tax.

That is what this is really about.

Ryan can't do shit and get away with it. He needs to shut the fuck up.

[yurbud]

6. they didn't notice what happened to Baby Bush when he went after SS?

Sometimes I wonder whether GOP pols are liars or idiots.

This weighs heavily on the idiot side.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I despise Ryan as much as I despise Trump, possibly more since I feel like he operates with pure

malice, whereas Trump is just a selfish, egomaniacal, needy child who is destructive out of his complete self-absorption and lack of concern for anyone but himself. Ryan actually WANTS to actively screw the most vulnerable people in this country over.

[duffyduff]

9. His party will never, ever win another election if he tries to pull that shit.

The fact is the voters gave these assholes NO mandate to do anything.