• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    So far, Milei has been right and his critics have been wrong. I assume he’ll veto this again.

    The thing about government spending (and I’m seeing it come up a lot in the context of Trump’s budget cuts too) is that pretty much all of it is important to someone sympathetic who will experience hardship without it. Reducing spending means taking money away from people who need it, but reducing spending is still sometimes necessary for long-term national prosperity.

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      11 hours ago

      I agree with what he says, although Milei still has several points that could be criticized.

      Returning to the topic of public spending, it’s difficult because each side wants more. Argentina made those cuts because its finances weren’t doing well and inflation was rising.

      The United States isn’t in that situation, so they could make those cuts more efficiently, but Trump made the cuts more for political reasons than practical ones. Added to the fact that his law, approved by Congress, makes it more likely that the United States will have more delicate finances in the future.

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        9 hours ago

        I didn’t mean to imply that Trump’s overall budget is a good one - maybe the cuts could be justified as part of a serious effort to reduce the deficit, but I don’t support them when they’re accompanied by even bigger tax cuts and the deficit grows.