alt Hacker News> No you forgot the wasted spending on Social Security [...] See, other people can throw in snide remarks too.
No, snide and wrong is extremely different!
Social Security spending is already funded by a separate tax and currently running a surplus. It's what our legislators are are debt to when use the discretionary budget to let the President start a game of Battleship in the straight of Hormuz.
> No, snide and wrong is extremely different!
Snide and wrong! You must be talking about the OP then and not me.
> Social Security spending is already funded by a separate tax and currently running a surplus.
If someone doesn't want to pay in to it, what difference does whether it's fully-funded or not make?
> It's what our legislators are are debt to when use the discretionary budget to let the President start a game of Battleship in the straight of Hormuz.
Or when they enact a pet project you agree with and others disagree with.