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John --
When the Big, Beautiful Bill passed the House and we asked about your thoughts on tackling the national debt, most responses highlighted the need to both increase revenue and decrease spending, with the primary debate being how much to focus on each area. So we dug in, asking you last week about where you think we should look to increase revenue. This week, we asked about where to cut spending.
We had our best response rate yet, with more than 3,000 of you voting in this week's poll!
A substantial plurality of you think that cutting military and defense spending is the best way to reduce our national debt. The U.S. spends more on our defense program than any other country; in fact, more than the next 20 countries combined. Further, we contribute more to our NATO defense commitment than any other partner. Our military budget makes up nearly 15% of our yearly spending.
Interestingly, reducing government overhead and operating costs, and reducing entitlement spending were tied, each with a quarter of the votes. Arguments of a specific implementation aside, it seems as if the goals of DOGE are something that a good percentage of you believe in. And while reductions to Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and SNAP programs are politically and financially difficult because of the nature of those programs, many Forwardists see that as necessary towards long-term fiscal health. We'll be digging into that one in a future poll to get more specific!
To summarize the comments:
Subsidy & Corporate Tax Break Reform
- While reducing subsidies to businesses was the least selected option, those who selected it were among the most vocal. Many called for a change to what some of you referred to as our "corporate entitlement program." You stated that giving tax breaks to oil and real estate organizations (the most commonly named) was unnecessary and wasting our money.
Defense Downsizing
- Many of you called for the downsizing of naval fleets, reduction of redundancy in equipment, and more efficient investing in drone technology.
Entitlement Reform
- Some of you called for a reform to Social Security, claiming that it was poorly managed and costing taxpayers money.
- Others worried about fraud in the system costing taxpayer dollars.
- As noted, we'll follow up on this one to see which reforms to these systems are most popular with Forwardists.
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