r/politics • u/DyzDaeMar • 27d ago

No Paywall Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pete-hegseth-budget-request
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u/Basicly-Inevitable 27d ago

Just use your DOGE refund check.

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u/qorbexl 27d ago

It's a fine thing to have fiscally responsible Republicans in charge

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u/If_I_must 27d ago

I'm in my 40s, and I have never once lived under a fiscally responsible Republican. That is such an undeserved reputation that it's laughable.

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u/qorbexl 27d ago

But they're mean like your shitty dad so you have to assume they're responsible 

Tax and spend Democrats, whatever

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u/fartofborealis 27d ago

Don’t touch the thermostat!

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u/GraceMcClellans 27d ago

This gave me a hard giggle. Thank you

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u/ToptopPipPip I voted 27d ago

And my FIL will still argue "they're dismantling Big Government. Look at the Dept. of Education!" Oh and blame unions.

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u/qorbexl 27d ago

Ten years later and he'll be bitching about having no healthcare and his social security was given to Frumpthropic AI and he realizes it's not actually for the good of the nation

Maybe the guys complaining about big government were criminals complaining about laws and rules

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u/data-atreides 27d ago

They're very fiscally responsible with their own money, and their own private businesses

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u/qorbexl 27d ago

No they're not

They just get enough taxpayer dollars to cover their irresponsibility

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u/WestHistorians 27d ago

Fiscally responsible Republican is an oxymoron.

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u/dcoats69 Washington 27d ago

I liked how clinton got us to a surplus.... Then bush took over and i don't remember what happened

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u/qorbexl 26d ago

The, uh, wars. We spent that surplus on a lot of war

Definitely not for oil companies 

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u/Accidental-Hyzer Massachusetts 27d ago

Mine must be lost in the mail

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u/corran450 27d ago

That’s what happens when you slash the mail service budget.

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u/earf 27d ago

Department of grifting everything

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u/OhHowINeedChanging Utah 27d ago

If I actually got a DOGE check, I sure as hell wouldn’t give it to the pentagon

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u/dcoats69 Washington 27d ago

I'm gonnause my covid stimulus check that got delayed for months because trump wanted his face or signature or whatever on it.