1) because the little things are little things. Medicaid is like 2% or less of the total budget. So even if you eliminated it completely (which is absurd) you don’t save a lot.
2) even if you were to cut 10-20% of the federal spending every year (which he won’t) that is then offset by Trump’s impending tax cuts. So it’s net neutral.
If you were to cut spending and raise taxes from current levels, I would say you were serious. But if you’re talking about Keeping taxes where they are cutting only a handful of percent, that is nowhere near enough to pay down our federal debt let alone run a surplus every year.
The math is simply not there.
3) you ask why do people talk about Medicare every time they talk about cutting spending. When Medicare was created, the median life expectancy in this country was about 70 years old. So Medicare was only expected to cover medical expenses in the last few years of life. We regularly have people live into their 80s and 90s now and I think the overall life expectancy is 78 years old. As the life expectancy increased, we never tied the Medicare age to that. Technically speaking, the year you should be eligible for Medicaid should be age 73 at this point. It was never meant to be a massive insurance program for 40% of the country.
But that’s what it has turned into, and there’s not a single Republican in the United States who is going to have the balls cut it. Because old people vote at a high percentage
