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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (528592)11/13/2009 3:35:45 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575052
 
Those are non-discretionary, because they were codified by Congressional Laws

Their non-discretionary as a term of art that's normally used when analyzing the budget, they are discretionary by the ordinary English meaning of the word because a single act of congress (combined with a presidential signing, or two acts if you have to override a veto), can eliminate the spending.

and 2 tax cuts Bush passed

Tax cuts aren't either "mandatory" or discretionary spending. They don't fit in to that scheme under any category.

The discretionary items are the minority of our deficit.

The deficit doesn't come with specific labels for each dollar. You can analyze it or chop it up in all sorts of different ways. Still your statement is a very reasonable one. The "mandatory" spending is the majority of the spending, so its reasonable to consider it the majority of the deficit (leaving "discretionary" items accounting for only a minority)
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