A list of productive spending cuts Congress could pass in a 2025 budget reconciliation bill

- Public sector wages are on average 17% higher than private-sector equivalents while benefits are 47% higher than those of private-sector workers.
Converging private and public sector retirement benefits could save upwards of $230 billion over ten years.

- Rolling back food stamp increases

- Tighten work requirements for SNAP recipients

- End categorical eligibility (meaning one wouldn’t automatically receive SNAP benefits because one receives certain other social benefits)

- Restrict SNAP food subsidies to non-junk food options

- Restrict welfare for immigrants

- End student loan forgiveness & cap federal student loans

- Introduce block grant Medicaid & stop Medicaid financing gimmicks by State governments

- Remove ACA repayment limits after an overpayment of health subsidies occurred

- Fully privatize Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac

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Theyitis · 36-40, M

How are any of these potential cuts “productive”?

CedricH · M

@Theyitis They‘re productive by efficiently reallocating scarce resources.

Theyitis · 36-40, M

@CedricH “Efficiently reallocating scarce resources” - from the poor and middle class to the wealthy.

CedricH · M

@Theyitis No, from less productive applications to more productive ones.

Theyitis · 36-40, M

@CedricH How does taking food away from the poor make them more productive? How does taking their basic needs away from immigrants make them more productive? How does keeping students buried under mountains of debt and interest make them more productive? These are three groups that aren’t very productive, but with just a little help could be made much more productive. Give tax cuts to the rich and they’ll hide it away in offshore accounts. How is that productive?