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by hackeraccount 3067 days ago
It might be if it had a constitutional amendment saying Medicaid, Medicare and/or Social Security were untouchable. It doesn't. There's no spending in the US that's not on the table. When or if push came to shove it's not hard to imagine some or all of those programs being cut just as it's not hard to imagine taxes going up.