16 Ways To Cut The Benefit Analysis

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16 Ways to Cut the Deficit As I read through the 16 Ways to Cut the Deficit many of the articles provided different ways to cut the national debt. In some cases there were good articles that had great supporting evidence to back up their plans on lower the national debt. On the other hand some of the articles provided statements that I felt did not have the best plan or evidence that could help lower the national debt. The two plans that I felt where the best to lower the national debt was first off the article that Maya MacGuineas wrote about putting off retirement. I believe that putting off retirement is a good thing since there are all new medicines and technology that allow for people to live longer healthier lives. They should be…show more content…
With that being said higher the age for these government programs for older people would be a good thing. Even increasing the age a little bite would drastically lower the costs from these programs and would also help lower the national debt. The people that would dislike the plan to higher the age to receive these benefits are older generation that are about to retire. The reason why is because they have waited so long that they want to get the money that they deserve. Second plan that I felt would be the best for lowering the national debt would be the article from Ryan Alexander who wrote about Set Military priorities. I believe that some of the points that she brought up would save a lot of money. She is not talking about cutting out military personal she is stating that there is some things in the military that we don’t need to waste our money on. For example when she talks about shrinking our nuclear arsenal; I agree with that statement one nuclear weapon could almost destroy the world. Why it is…show more content…
I felt that the article was very unjust and it felt like he really had no clue to what really goes on in school. For example he states in his article that “Consider the schools. They receive more than $40 billion a year in federal aid. Despite the aid — and all the federal mandates that go with it — average school test scores have been essentially flat for decades. Federal intervention has failed to improve scores in part because the top-down rules that come with aid have squelched local innovation.” This statement is utterly false. For one I don’t think that schools get nearly enough if you look at Fermi High School for instance we have nothing that is up to date including text books computers and on top of it all teachers don’t get paid nearly enough as they should what teachers do each and every day is a passion for teaching not making money. Another reason why I do not like this article is because he uses the test scores as a point to make. In reality test scores are not a way that you can describe someone there are plenty of smart people that just may do badly on tests. The people that would hate a rule change like this one would be teachers and students because many of these politicians don’t see what really is going on is public schools. The second plan that I felt would not be good for lowering the national debt is from the
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