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Should the government make cuts to public spending in order to reduce the national debt?

Proponents of deficit reduction argue that governments who do not control budget deficits and debt are at risk of losing their ability to borrow money at affordable rates. Opponents of deficit reduction argue that government spending would increase demand for goods and services and help avert a dangerous fall into deflation, a downward spiral in wages and prices that can cripple an economy for years.

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Response rates from 7.4m America voters.

64%
Yes
36%
No
57%
Yes
24%
No
5%
Yes, and eliminate federal agencies that are unconstitutional
6%
No, increase taxes on large multinational corporations instead
1%
Yes, but by drastically reducing the benefits and salaries of government officials
3%
No, reduce military spending instead
1%
Yes, and increase taxes
2%
No, cuts to public spending will negatively affect the economy
1%
No, increase taxes on the wealthy instead
0%
No, focus on ending tax evasion instead
0%
No, reduce the number of government officials instead

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 @92JWXW7 from Kentucky  answered…4yrs4Y

No, reduce the amount of government officials instead. We should also focus on ending tax evasion too. Cuts to public spending will negatively affect the economy.

 @8FTVLYP from Michigan  answered…6yrs6Y

Essentially yes. But other things need to be done. Increase taxes on top income bracket, eliminate deductions and loopholes on taxes for large corporations, reduce military spending and police budgets.

 @B648NBC from New York  answered…11mos11MO

No unnecessary cuts to social safety net programs and essential government services and no unnecessary spending

 @8D7X8VB from Pennsylvania  answered…6yrs6Y

Yes, replace many gov programs such as welfare with UNIVERSAL INCOME. too much waste in government spending and programs.

 @8JCJLWV from Texas  answered…6yrs6Y

Changes are needed but this is a very complicated question

 @8W6XWGK from Colorado  answered…5yrs5Y

Yes, but only where there is unnecessary spending in public funds.

 @92C5M7S from Kentucky  answered…4yrs4Y

No, reduce the amount of government officials instead. We should also focus on ending tax evasion too. Also cuts to public spending will negatively affect the economy.

 @9T6DN2M from North Carolina  answered…2yrs2Y

No, boost taxes on the wealthy and large corporations and focus on ending tax evasion and eliminating wasteful spending instead

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1yr1Y

Biden bans new offshore oil drilling along most of US coastline

President Joe Biden announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the US coastline on Monday in a move designed to bolster his environmental and climate legacy as he prepares to leave office.The order will protect 625mn acres of ocean on the US east coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coasts of Washington, Oregon and California, as well as portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, the White House said on Monday.“My decision reflects what the coastal communities, business and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” Biden said.The executive action will not prevent oil and gas companies obtaining leases in the central and western parts of the Gulf of Mexico, areas that produce almost 15 per cent of the nation’s oil supplies. Nevertheless, the move is expected to complicate the policy agenda of incoming president Donald Trump, who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and boost US oil production, even though it is already at a record level.The Trump transition team said it was a disgraceful decision designed to exact “political revenge on the American people” and the incoming president said he would immediately “unban” Biden’s prohibition on new offshore drilling.“I have the right to unban it immediately . . . we can’t let that happen to our country. It’s our greatest, it’s really our greatest economic asset,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview on Monday.Biden’s action will probably be challenged by the oil industry in court and face pushback from Republicans in Congress. But overturning the order could prove challenging and may require an act of Congress, according to legal experts.Biden is using his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, to protect the areas from drilling — the same mechanism which former president Barack Obama used previously to ban offshore drilling in some Arctic and Atlantic waters in 2016.In 2019, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by former president Donald Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean was unlawful.

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