Hospitals & Asylums
Health and Welfare (HAW)
To supplement Chapter
3 National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the Social Security
administration to an estimated 62 million beneficiaries in 2016– 41
million retirees and survivors, with Old Age Survivor Insurance (OASI) and 21
million disabled workers - 14 million with Disability Insurance (DI) and 9
million with Supplemental Security Income (SSI) with some overlap in 2015. The United States must get the OASDI tax
rate right to save the DI trust fund from depletion and avoid deprivation of
relief benefits under 18USC¤246. To pay for a 3% COLA (Cost of Living
Adjustment) with a Free DIRT (Disability Insurance Reallocation Tax) and 3%
COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) Act of January 1, 2016. To amend the DI tax
rate from 1.80% to 2.40% in 2016, 2.30% in 2017 and 2.20% in 2018; from 0.90%
to 1.20% in 2016, 1.15% in 2017 and 1.10% in 2018 for employees and from 0.90%
to 1.20% in 2016, 1.15% in 2017 and 1.10% in 2018 for employers under Sec.
201(b)(1)(S) of the Social Security Act 42USC¤401. To
amend the OASI tax rate from 10.60% to 10.0% in 2016, 10.10% in 2017, and
10.20% in 2018; from 5.30% to 5.00% in 2016, to 5.05% in 2017, to 5.10% in 2018
for employees under 26USC¤3101
(a) and from 5.30% to 5.00% in 2016, 5.05% in 2017, and 5.10% in 2018 for
employers under 26USC¤3111
(a) to avoid depletion of the Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund in 2016
without increasing the overall 12.4% OASDI or 15.3% OASDI and Hospital
Insurance (HI) Federal Insurance Contribution Act tax-rate under 26USC¤1401. To repeal
Sec. 215 (i) of the Social Security Act 42USC¤415 and
legislate a 3% annual COLA. To cite ILO Conventions 132, 156 and 183 in a
Maternity Leave Act in amendment of Sec.
305 of the Social Security Act 42USC¤505.
To replace welfare Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) with licensed social
workers and non-social worker representatives under Sec. 206 of the Social
Security Act 42USC¤406. To limit the term of the Commissioner
from 6 to 2 years, by amendment of Sec. 702 of the Social Security Act 42USC(7)VII¤902(a)(3). To automatically increase monthly
benefits to $700 after 42 months $600-$699 (Revelation 13:10) and redress
wrongful overpayment decisions since the Defense of Social Security Caucus of
2011 with underpayment Sec. 204 of the Social Security Act 42USC¤404. To require
the Commissioner of SSA to account for OASDI, SSI and Human Services to end
poverty by 2020 and require the Administrator of CMS to account for a 2.5%
Medicare, Medicaid and ACA health annuity in summer solstice instructions (ssi) by amending Annual Reports Sec.
1161 of the Social Security Act 42USC¤1320c-10.
To amend the Amount of Premiums in Sec. 1839
of the Social Security 42USC¤1395r for a
2.5% health annuity to lead ACA and other private health insurance corporations
to credit customers with the difference with the 20% ACA and 50% Medicare part
B premium price inflation 2015-16. To
limit federal health spending to less than $1 trillion until national health
expenditures are less than 10% of GDP. To repeal 'medical
records and payments' from the Fair Credit Reporting Act 15USC¤1681a(x)(1).
To require the USDA to sustain 3% annual Supplemental
Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) growth. To create a UN contribution row on the
1040 tax form with a suggested donation of 1-2% of income. To pass a Without Income Limit Law
(WILL): To abolish the maximum taxable limit on DI contributions on January 1,
2016 and OASI contributions January 1, 2017 by repealing Adjustment of the contribution
and benefit base Section 230 of the Social Security Act 42USC¤430 to tax
the rich and increase OASDI revenues by 130% and SSI spending by 250% to
balance the federal budget in 2017 and end poverty by 2020.
Be the Democratic and Republican (DR) two party
system Abolished, referred to the Actuary, Commissioner and Trustees (ACT)
1st Ed. 2003, 1st15 September 2004, 2nd 1 June 2005, 3rd 18 June 2006, 4th 17 June 2007. 5th 12 June 2009, 6th 31 July 2010, 7th 17 August 2011, 8th 14 July 2012, 9th 26 July 2015.10th 7 September 2015, 11th
7 February 2016, 12th 24 May 2016
Summer Solstice Instructions
1. Chapter 3 National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, Title
24 US Code
Subchapter V Battle Mountain Sanitarium Reserve, ¤151-154 to settle bona claims to land;
private exchange of lands under ¤153 and up to $1,000 fine and 12
months in jail for the unlawful intrusion of reserves or violation of rules and
regulations under ¤154 are preserved. Benefit programs are regulated by the
civil rights crime deprivation of relief benefits under 18USC¤246. The SSA
Actuary, Commissioner and Treasurer (ACT) must compensate all social security
beneficiaries for the misdemeanor Ňno COLAÓ offense on January 1 and a felony
if disability benefits are cut because the Commissioner is unable to uphold the
standard of calculus needed to adjust the OASDI tax rates, as has not been done
since 2000, causing the Disability Insurance (DI) trust fund to become
depleted. . OASDI has a 300% trust fund ratio, beneficiaries
are due a 3% COLA to foster normal 3% economic growth. The correct OASDI tax rate, that must be
retroactively accounted for, to afford underpayment from January 1, 2016 is
– 2.4% DI 10.0% OASI in 2016, 2.3% DI 10.1% OASI in 2017, and 2.2% DI and
10.2% OASI in 2018. The federal government could have a budget surplus with
which to end poverty if only the $118,500 (2015) OASDI limit on taxable income
were eliminated. The DI trust fund
alone would produce enough surplus to afford the USPS
deficit. However, if the federal
budget were accurately accounted for there would be only a -$71 billion deficit
in 2016 before it turns into a surplus.
Therefore, it is proposed to pay up to a $100 billion maximum allowable
deficit (mad) and reduce poverty by half and eliminate child poverty, instead
of ending poverty by 2020 beginning with a 250% increase in SSI spending in
2017. The Actuary has been held
harmless since the 2015 Annual Reports and both OASDI and CMS Actuaries are as
tardy in 2016 as the CommissionerŐs May 20th Report on SSI was in
2015. The United States does not boast a single accurate federal spending
account valued over $500 billion.
The 2014 OASI table did not declare the 3.4% average interest rate and
the low and high projections were jumbled.
Medicare premiums increased 50% between 2015-16 and the ultimate
assumptions on all health inflation must be for a 2.5% health annuity,
beginning in the sixth month of the year, without any retroactivity for those
whose payments were held harmless at the previous yearŐs rate. ACA premiums also increased more than
20% 2015-16 and the captive audience is due consumer credit for the difference
with a 2.5% health annuity, from the sixth month of the year. HHS accounting is challenged by a
trillion dollar limit on federal health department spending until national
health expenditures are less than 10% of GDP by 2030 with a 2.5% health
annuity. The SSA Commissioner
and CMS Administrator shall produce summer solstice instructions (ssi) to end poverty by 2020, beginning in 2016. Otherwise it is to be HA for
Commissioner of Social Security and it will take five years to update the new
edition supplementing the United States code 2015-2020. Tony Sanders is 41, ages 40-44 are
statistically the lowest rates of disability, the Social Security Amendments of
January 1, 2016 may be the only HA legislation to ever pass Congress - to end
poverty by 2020.
Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) Rates
|
Tax rate for employees
and employers, each |
Tax rate for self-employed workers |
|
|||||||||||
|
Year |
OASI |
DI |
OASDI |
HI |
Total |
OASI |
DI |
OASDI |
HI |
Total |
|
||
|
37-49 |
1.000 |
-- |
1.000 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
|
||
|
1950 |
1.500 |
-- |
1.500 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
-- |
|
||
|
51-53 |
1.500 |
-- |
1.500 |
-- |
-- |
2.250 |
-- |
2.250 |
-- |
2.250 |
|
||
|
54-56 |
2.000 |
-- |
2.000 |
-- |
-- |
3.000 |
-- |
3.000 |
-- |
3.000 |
|
||
|
57-58 |
2.000 |
0.250 |
2.250 |
-- |
-- |
3.0000 |
0.3750 |
3.375 |
-- |
3.375 |
|
||
|
1959 |
2.250 |
0.250 |
2.500 |
-- |
-- |
3.3750 |
0.3750 |
3.750 |
-- |
3.750 |
|
||
|
60-61 |
2.750 |
0.250 |
3.000 |
-- |
-- |
4.1250 |
0.3750 |
4.500 |
-- |
4.500 |
|
||
|
1962 |
2.875 |
0.250 |
3.125 |
-- |
-- |
4.3250 |
0.3750 |
4.700 |
-- |
4.700 |
|
||
|
63-65 |
3.375 |
0.250 |
3.625 |
-- |
-- |
5.0250 |
0.3750 |
5.400 |
-- |
5.400 |
|
||
|
1966 |
3.500 |
0.350 |
3.850 |
0.350 |
4.200 |
5.2750 |
0.5250 |
5.800 |
0.350 |
6.150 |
|
||
|
1967 |
3.550 |
0.350 |
3.900 |
0.500 |
4.400 |
5.3750 |
0.5250 |
5.900 |
0.500 |
6.400 |
|
||
|
1968 |
3.325 |
0.475 |
3.800 |
0.600 |
4.400 |
5.0875 |
0.7125 |
5.800 |
0.600 |
6.400 |
|
||
|
1969 |
3.725 |
0.475 |
4.200 |
0.600 |
4.800 |
5.5875 |
0.7125 |
6.300 |
0.600 |
6.900 |
|
||
|
1970 |
3.650 |
0.550 |
4.200 |
0.600 |
4.800 |
5.4750 |
0.8250 |
6.300 |
0.600 |
6.900 |
|
||
|
71-72 |
4.050 |
0.550 |
4.600 |
0.600 |
5.200 |
6.0750 |
0.8250 |
6.900 |
0.600 |
7.500 |
|
||
|
1973 |
4.300 |
0.550 |
4.850 |
1,000 |
5.850 |
6.2050 |
0.7950 |
7.000 |
1.000 |
8.000 |
|
||
|
74-77 |
4.375 |
0.575 |
4.950 |
0.900 |
5.850 |
6.1850 |
0.8150 |
7.000 |
0.900 |
7.900 |
|
||
|
1978 |
4.275 |
0.775 |
5.050 |
1.000 |
6.050 |
6.0100 |
1.0900 |
7.100 |
1.000 |
8.100 |
|
||
|
1979 |
4.330 |
0.750 |
5.080 |
1.050 |
6.130 |
6.0100 |
1.0400 |
7.050 |
1.050 |
8.100 |
|
||
|
1980 |
4.520 |
0.560 |
5.080 |
1.050 |
6.130 |
6.2725 |
0.7775 |
7.050 |
1.050 |
8.200 |
|
||
|
1981 |
4.700 |
0.650 |
5.350 |
1.300 |
6.650 |
7.0250 |
0.9750 |
8.000 |
1.300 |
9.300 |
|
||
|
1982 |
4.575 |
0.825 |
5.400 |
1.300 |
6.700 |
6.8125 |
1.2375 |
8.050 |
1.300 |
9.350 |
|
||
|
1983 |
4.775 |
0.625 |
5.400 |
1.300 |
6.700 |
7.1125 |
0.9375 |
8.050 |
1.300 |
9.350 |
|
||
|
1984 |
5.200 |
0.500 |
5.700 |
1.300 |
7.000 |
10.400 |
1.000 |
11.400 |
2.600 |
14.000 |
|
||
|
1985 |
5.200 |
0.500 |
5.700 |
1.350 |
7.050 |
10.400 |
1.000 |
11.400 |
2.700 |
14.100 |
|
||
|
1986-87 |
5.200 |
0.500 |
5.700 |
1.450 |
7.150 |
10.400 |
1.000 |
11.400 |
2.900 |
14.300 |
|
||
|
88-89 |
5.530 |
0.530 |
6.060 |
1.450 |
7.510 |
11.060 |
1.060 |
12.120 |
2.900 |
15.020 |
|
||
|
90-93 |
5.600 |
0.600 |
6.200 |
1.450 |
7.650 |
11.200 |
1.200 |
12.400 |
2.900 |
15.300 |
|
||
|
94-96 |
5.260 |
0.940 |
6.200 |
1.450 |
7.650 |
10.520 |
1.880 |
12.400 |
2.900 |
15.300 |
|
||
|
97-99 |
5.350 |
0.850 |
6.200 |
1.450 |
7.650 |
10.700 |
1.700 |
12.400 |
2.900 |
15.300 |
|
||
|
2000 |
5.300 |
0.900 |
6.200 |
1.450 |
7.650 |
10.600 |
1.800 |
12.400 |
2.900 |
15.300 |
|
||
|
Fut. Year |
OASI |
DI |
OASDI |
HI |
Total |
OASI |
DI |
OASDI |
HI |
Total |
|
||
|
2016 |
5.000 |
1.200 |
6.200 |
1.450 |
7.650 |
10.000 |
2.400 |
12.400 |
2.900 |
15.300 |
|
||
|
2017 |
5.050 |
1.150 |
6.200 |
1.450 |
7.650 |
10.100 |
2.300 |
12.400 |
2.900 |
15.300 |
|
||
|
2018 |
5.100 |
1.100 |
6.200 |
1.450 |
7.650 |
10.200 |
2.200 |
12.400 |
2.900 |
15.300 |
|
||
|
Tax rate for employees and employers, each |
Tax
rate for self-employed workers |
||||||||||||
Source: 2015 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal
OASDI and Federal DI Trust Funds
2. Social security is the largest,
most important and most loved social program in modern governments. Social Security administrates monthly
benefits to an estimated 62 million people – 41 million retirees and survivors,
with Old Age Survivor Insurance (OASI) and 21 million disabled workers - 14
million with
Disability Insurance (DI) and 9 million with Supplemental
Security Income (SSI). The United
States must get the OASDI tax rate right to save the DI trust fund from
depletion. Since 2000 when the 1.8% rate was legislated the OASDI tax rate has
not been changed and it is projected that the DI trust fund is going to be
depleted this 2016 although OASI makes enough revenues to pay for DI without an
OASI deficit until 2019 if optimally adjusted. In 2008, just before costs first
exceeded revenues, it became apparent that the DI trust fund was going to be
depleted much sooner than the OASI trust fund and the DI tax rate should have
been increased. In 2000 the DI Trust Fund disbursed $60.2 billion, the balance
was $55 billion. Since 2009 DI program costs have exceeded combined payroll tax
and interest income by -$12.2 in 2009, -$23.6 in 2010 and -$25.8 in 2011. The
trust fund ratio began its inexorable decline from a high of 199% in 2008 to
183% in 2009. DI costs continued to rise but revenues declined to a low of
$105.5 billion in 2010. Growth was slow and by 2012 DI total revenues were
$108.8 but program cost had risen to $138.5 billion and the trust fund had
fallen to $132 billion 117% of annual benefit payments. (Tables VI. C5, VI.G2
Disability Benefit Disbursement under the OASDI Program 2013 Annual Report). By
2015 total revenues were projected to increase to $121.2 but the early
retirement of the baby boomers had swollen payments to $151 billion and there
was only $28.4 billion left, at the end of the year the trust fund ratio was
39% and in 2016 the trust fund is expected to be entirely depleted and would
cease functioning, reduced benefits would continue to be paid with tax
revenues. (Table IV.A2 Operations of the DI Trust Fund 2014 Annual Report). It
is unfair that SSA is considering cutting benefits as low as 80% of current
value when the trust fund is depleted sometime in 2016 when all they need to do
is adjust the tax rate. In 2016 total revenues are estimated to be $129.3
billion, payroll tax contributions are estimated to be $125..7
billion and total expenses $159.4 billion. To quickly estimate the minimum tax
rate that the DI trust fund needs with the ratio 1.8 / 125.7 = x / 159.4 where
x yields a DI tax rate of 2.3%. The DI trust fund has however been operating on
a deficit since 2009 and is nearly depleted at year end
2015. It is therefore necessary to adjust the OASDI tax rate to an emergency
rate of 2.4% to avoid depleting the trust fun. Using the same equation 1.8 /
125.7 = 2.4 / x the 2.4% rate would generate $167.6 billion in revenues, saving
$8.2 billion for a trust fund balance of $44.2 billion, including about $1.5
billion in interest income at year end 2016. The United States must legislate
the 2.4% DI and 10.0% OASI tax rate immediately. In 2017 the 2.3% tax rate is
estimated to bring in $170.5 billion and expenses are estimated at $165.2
billion saving the DI trust fund $5.7 billion, bringing the trust fund balance
to $51.6 billion, including about $1.7 billion interest income. In 2018 so many
baby boomers are expected to have retired from disability that the actual DI
tax rate should be adjusted to 2.2%, to prevent an early deficit in the OASI
trust fund, making $185 billion and costing $171.2 billion, saving $13.8
billion. The DI tax rate of 2.2% and OASI tax rate of 10.2% is expected to be
the intermediate rate from 2018 to at least 2022, that holds even when the OASI
trust fund begins to show a deficit around 2020 to protect the smaller DI trust
fund. The OASI trust fund is much larger and can better afford to lobby SSA to
eliminate the maximum taxable limit on income and tax the richest to increase
OASDI tax revenues by 130%, increase welfare spending and balance the federal
budget, the year the new tax goes into effect. H.R. 1314, the "Bipartisan
Budget Act of 2015," introduced on September 27, 2015 Section 833 concedes
to a 2.37% DI tax rate but 2016-2018 but has not amended the law in time. The 2.4%
DI and 10.0% OASI OASDI tax rate estimates for 2016 must be legislated right
away by unanimous roll-call vote of the Social
Security Amendments of January 1, 2016.
OASDI Trust Funds: Current, Free DIRT and WILL 2015-2022
|
OASI |
DI |
OASDI |
|||||||||
|
Year |
Total
Rev. |
Gross
Cost |
Gross
Increase |
Total
Rev. |
Gross Cost |
Gross
Increase |
Total
Rev. |
Gross
Cost |
Gross
Increase |
||
|
2015 |
816.8 |
758.7 |
58.1 |
121.2 |
151.0 |
-29.8 |
938.0 |
909.7 |
28.3 |
||
|
2016 |
858.8 |
807.5 |
51.3 |
125.8 |
155.8 |
-30.0 |
984.6 |
963.3 |
21.3 |
||
|
DIRT |
824.5 |
807.5 |
17 |
161.2 |
155.8 |
5.4 |
985.7 |
963.3 |
22.4 |
||
|
WILL |
824.5 |
807.5 |
17 |
208.7 |
161.0 |
47.7 |
1,033.2 |
968.5 |
64.7 |
||
|
2017 |
907.4 |
861.1 |
46.3 |
133.6 |
161.2 |
-27.6 |
1,041 |
1,022 |
18.7 |
||
|
DIRT |
869.7 |
861.1 |
8.6 |
171.3 |
161.2 |
10.1 |
1,041 |
1,022 |
18.7 |
||
|
WILL |
1,090.8 |
950.2 |
140.6 |
222.4 |
167.3 |
55.1 |
1,313.2 |
1,117.5 |
195.7 |
||
|
2018 |
959.6 |
920.5 |
39.1 |
141.9 |
167.1 |
-25.2 |
1,101.5 |
1,087.6 |
13.9 |
||
|
DIRT |
926.1 |
920.5 |
5.6 |
174.4 |
167.1 |
7.3 |
1,100.5 |
1,087.6 |
12.9 |
||
|
WILL |
1,163.2 |
1,023 |
140.2 |
226.9 |
173.9 |
53 |
1,390.1 |
1,196.9 |
193.2 |
||
|
2019 |
1,009.8 |
985.1 |
24.7 |
149.7 |
173.6 |
-23.9 |
1,159.5 |
1,158.7 |
0.8 |
||
|
DIRT |
973.5 |
985.1 |
-11.6 |
184 |
173.6 |
10.4 |
1,157.5 |
1,158.7 |
-1.2 |
||
|
WILL |
1,223.9 |
1,101 |
122.9 |
240.2 |
180.9 |
59.3 |
1,464.1 |
1,281.9 |
182.2 |
||
|
2020 |
1,059.6 |
1,055 |
4.6 |
157.6 |
180.6 |
-23 |
1,217.2 |
1,235.6 |
-18.4 |
||
|
DIRT |
1,020.4 |
1,055 |
-34.6 |
194.1 |
180.6 |
13.5 |
1,214.5 |
1,235.6 |
-31.1 |
||
|
WILL |
1,284.7 |
1,184 |
100.7 |
254.0 |
188.2 |
65.8 |
1,538.7 |
1,372.2 |
166.5 |
||
|
2021 |
1,109.4 |
1,123 |
-13.6 |
165.5 |
189.4 |
-23.9 |
1,274.9 |
1,312.4 |
-37.5 |
||
|
DIRT |
1,067.1 |
1,123 |
-55.9 |
204.2 |
189.4 |
14.8 |
1,271.3 |
1,312.4 |
-41.1 |
||
|
WILL |
1,347.4 |
1,268 |
79.4 |
267.6 |
197.2 |
70.4 |
1,615 |
1,465.2 |
149.8 |
||
|
2022 |
1,158.5 |
1,197 |
-38.5 |
173.5 |
198.5 |
-25 |
1,332 |
1,395.5 |
-63.5 |
||
|
DIRT |
1.113.1 |
1,197 |
-83.9 |
214.4 |
198.5 |
15.9 |
1,327.5 |
1,395.5 |
-68 |
||
|
WILL |
1,409.8 |
1,359 |
50.8 |
281.3 |
206.3 |
75.0 |
1,691.1 |
1,565.3 |
125.8 |
||
Source: 2014 Annual Report of the Trustees Table IV.A1
recalculated at 3.4% interest rate plus DI Table IV.A2
3. The
WILL would insure everyone in the United States against poverty by 2020. The goal is to end poverty by 2020. However, if the federal budget is not
balanced the United States will only be able to reduce poverty by half and end
child poverty by 2020. Because the
true budget deficit is estimated to be only -$71 in 2017 the WILL would pay up
to $100 billion maximum allowable deficit (mad) although the true deficit in.
Ending poverty is better than debt relief. Poverty now afflicts more than 46 million
people in the United States. The goal of the low and intermediate SSI spending and
beneficiary projections for the WILL is to reduce poverty by half and eliminate
child poverty while paying up to $100 billion maximum allowable deficit (mad)
although the true deficit in 2017 is estimated to be only $71 billion before it
becomes a surplus and the federal government would have enough money to pay SSI
benefits to 61.3 million people, more than are currently poor. Poverty relief
is better economics than debt relief. Poverty now afflicts more than 46 million
people in the United States. To mathematically reduce poverty by half and
eliminate child poverty in schools by 2020 with SSI benefits it would take at
least 20 million new SSI benefits, averaging $627 in 2020 for a total new cost
$12.5 billion a month, $150 billion in 2020. Two-thirds of 20 million new
benefits, 14 million benefits for children and another one-third, 6 million
benefits, for adults by 2020 at a regular growth rate of five million new SSI
benefits over a four year period 2017-2020 would be 62% annual spending growth,
including a 3% COLA could be estimated at 63% in 2017. Administrative growth is
hoped to remain stable at 3% annually with the help of school Individual
Education Plans (IEPs) for poor students and reliable rates of growth.
SSI with a WILL to End Poverty by 2020
|
Year |
Monthly
Benefit (in dollars) |
Average
Benefit |
Beneficiaries (in millions) |
Annual
Benefits (in billions) |
Annual
Admin. (in billions) |
Annual
SSI Costs (in billions) |
|
2015 |
$733 |
$541 |
8.3 |
$53.9 |
$4.4 |
58.3 |
|
2016 |
733 |
541 |
8.3 |
54.7 |
4.5 |
59.2 |
|
2016
Free |
755 |
557 |
8.3 |
55.5 |
4.6 |
60.1 |
|
2016 DI
WILL Low |
755 |
557 |
8.5 |
56.8 |
4.6 |
61.4 |
|
2017
Free |
777 |
574 |
8.4 |
56.3 |
4.7 |
61.0 |
|
2017
WILL Intermediate |
777 |
574 |
19.9 |
137.3 |
4.7 |
142 |
|
2017
WILL Low |
777 |
574 |
13.5 |
93.0 |
4.7 |
97.7 |
|
2017
WILL High |
777 |
777 |
24.9 |
232 |
4.7 |
237 |
|
2018
Free |
800 |
591 |
8.5 |
60.3 |
4.9 |
65.2 |
|
2018
WILL Intermediate |
800 |
591 |
22.4 |
159.1 |
4.9 |
164 |
|
2018
WILL Low |
800 |
591 |
19 |
134.7 |
4.9 |
139.6 |
|
2018
WILL High |
800 |
800 |
37.0 |
355.1 |
4.9 |
360 |
|
2019
Free |
825 |
609 |
8.7 |
63.6 |
5.0 |
68.6 |
|
2019
WILL Intermediate |
825 |
609 |
24.7 |
181 |
5.0 |
186 |
|
2019
WILL Low |
825 |
609 |
24 |
175.4 |
5.0 |
180.4 |
|
2019
WILL High |
825 |
825 |
48.1 |
476 |
5.0 |
481 |
|
2020
Free |
850 |
627 |
8.8 |
66.2 |
5.2 |
71.4 |
|
2020
WILL Intermediate |
850 |
627 |
29.9 |
225 |
5.2 |
230 |
|
2020
WILL Low |
850 |
627 |
29 |
218.2 |
5.2 |
223.4 |
|
2020
WILL High |
850 |
850 |
61.3 |
625 |
5.2 |
630 |
Source: 2015 Annual Report of the Board of
Trustees of the Federal OASDI and DI Trust Funds
4. National poverty is measured as the number of people who live below the poverty line, below which a person would be expected to suffer from hunger as the result of the market prices of room and board. Unemployment, the number of people actively looking for work, is also a significant indicator of national poverty, however the real employment figures which indicate the percentage of the population that is actually employed is less arbitrary. In 1979, the average central city poverty rate was 15.7%, at its highest point, in 1993, it was 21.5%, by 2001 it was 16.5%, but was still over twice the rate for the suburbs, 8.2%. In 2005 it was estimated that 35-37 million people lived below the poverty line in the USA, 12.6-13.2% of the population, 4.7% were unemployed with a labor force participation rate of 66%. Census data shows that in 2010, 46.2 million Americans lived below the poverty line, and 63 million lived below 130% of the poverty line, SNAPŐs gross income limit. Since the economic recession the number of people living below the poverty has increased 13.6%. It is estimated that today 15.3% of the population are poor. Recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in conjunction with the U.S. Census Bureau developed a Supplemental Poverty Measure, which was released in 2011, based on a basket of goods and services, rather than merely food, that showed the incidence of poverty is somewhat higher than the official measure. In 2010, the official incidence of poverty was 15.2 percent, while it was 16 percent using the Supplemental Measure. In 2010, the poverty rate for the elderly was 9 percent officially but 15.9 percent with the new definition. The increase is due primarily to the much higher medical costs borne by older men and women. The poverty rate for working age adults is estimated to have gone down to 10%. The number of children raised in poverty continues to rise. In 2016 an estimated 24% of children under the age of 18, around 14 million children, nearly 1 in 4 US children, were growing up in poverty, the highest rate in the industrialized world. In Finland, the number is about 2.8%; Norway, 3.4%; Sweden, maybe 4.2%, Switzerland, 6.8%, Netherlands in second place at 9.8%. Of 18-to-64-year olds 20.5 million, 11.1% were poor and of people 65 and older 3.6 million, 10.1% were poor in 2011.
100% of the Federal Poverty
Level Guidelines 2016
|
Family Size |
Annual |
Monthly |
Weekly |
|
1 |
$11,880 |
$990 |
$228 |
|
2 |
$16.020 |
$1,335 |
$308 |
|
3 |
$20,160 |
$1,680 |
$388 |
|
4 |
$24,300 |
$2,025 |
$467 |
|
5 |
$28,440 |
$2,370 |
$547 |
|
6 |
$32,580 |
$2,715 |
$627 |
|
7 |
$36,730 |
$3,061 |
$706 |
|
8 |
$40,890 |
$3,408 |
$786 |
|
Each additional |
$4,160 |
$347 |
$80 |
Source: HHS 2016
5. The poverty line in 2016 was $11,880 for a family of one, $16,020 for a
family of two, $20,160 for a family of three and $24,300 for a family of four.
For an individual, at $733 a month in 2016 SSI pays $9,276 a year plus
automatic eligibility for as much a $200 a month food card, another $2,400
annually, $11,676, still a little below the $11,880 poverty line and quite
hungry for the food bank, free clothes, but eligible for free Medicaid. For a
couple, at $1,100 a month, $13,200 a year, plus around $2,400 in food stamps,
$15,600 a year plus free Medicaid, only $420 less than the poverty line. At an estimated $1,350 a month for a
family of three annual earnings would be $16,200, exactly enough for the
poverty for a family of two, but $4,000 less than the $20,160 poverty line.
With a full benefit of $733 a month plus the $1,100 for a couple a family of
three would receive $1,833 a month, $21,996 a year, $1,836 more than the
poverty line on SSI alone. The poverty line was in 2016 $11,880 for a family of one, $16,020 for a
family of two, $20,160 for a family of three and $24,300 for a family of four.
For an individual, at $733 a month in 2016 SSI pays $9,276 a year plus
automatic eligibility for as much a $200 a month food card, another $2,400
annually, $11,676, still a little below the $11,880 poverty line and quite
hungry for the food bank, free clothes, but eligible for free Medicaid. For a
couple, at $1,100 a month, $13,200 a year, plus around $2,400 in food stamps,
$15,600 a year plus free Medicaid, only $420 less than the poverty line.
Because additional family members cost less than individuals only $1,524 per
year, $127 a month, paying families of children growing up below the poverty
line may not be so very expensive after At an estimated $1,350 a month for a
family of three annual earnings would be $16,200, exactly enough for the
poverty for a family of two, but $4,000 less than the $20,160 poverty line.
With a full benefit of $733 a month plus the $1,100 for a couple a family of three
would receive $1,833 a month, $21,996 a year, $1,836 more than the poverty line
on SSI alone. SSA program rules must not think to impoverish families making
less than 150 percent of the federal poverty line. Furthermore, disability determination
needs to be abolished under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
6. The reason for the
higher levels of child poverty than poverty in other age groups is that the
number of TANF beneficiaries has declined dramatically from a high of nearly
14.2 million beneficiaries in 1993 to little less than 5 million families in
2003 after the Personal Responsibility and World Opportunity Reconciliation Act
(PRWORA) of 1996 deprived families of 10 million relief benefits under
18USC¤246. Furthermore minimum wages have stagnated and need to be legislated
so that they automatically increase 3% annually so that wages keep up with
average inflation of the consumer price index (CPI) and do not result in
layoffs after decadent minimum wage hikes. From 2006 to 2011 the
percentage of children living below the official poverty line increased from
18% to 22%, and when the Ňnear poorÓ are included, the percentage has changed
from 40% to 45% - almost half – of all children in the Untied States
under the age of 18. The statistics are even worse for younger children: 49% of
children under 3 years of age and 48% of those between 3 and 5 years of age are
currently living in poor or near poor households. Only 10% of children living with both parents were below
the poverty line whereas 40% living with only one parent were below the poverty
line. Children living only with their mothers were twice as likely to live in
poverty as those living only with their fathers. Housing instability and
homelessness among children and youth continues to rise. Between 1.6 and 2.8
million youth are homeless in a given year, and over 50% were not attending
school regularly. The McKinney-Vento Homeless assistance act of 1987 was
amended in 2001 for Part B to provide education for homeless children and
youth. In 2004 in the
U.S. an estimated 14 million parents had custody of 21.6 million children under 21 years of age while the other parent lived somewhere
else. 28% of children live in single parent household as the result of
the dramatic increase in divorce rate to 50% of all marriages in the
1990s. In 1999 there were 2.2 million marriages and 1.1 million
divorces. In 2001, 6.9 million custodial parents were due an average of
$5,000. An aggregate of $34.9 billion of payments were due and about $21.9
billion (62.6%) were received, averaging $3,200 per custodial-parent family,
another $900 million were volunteered by parents without current awards or
agreements. The prioritize payment of poor children the United States needs
uphold the International Labor Organization (ILO) Holidays with Pay Convention
(Convention
132) of 1970; Workers with Family Responsibilities (Convention 156) of 1981, and Maternity Protection (Convention 183) of 2000 with a Maternity Leave Act.
Human Service Budget
Summary FY 2016-17
|
FY 2016 |
FY 2017 |
Change |
% Change |
|
|
Administration for Children and
Families |
||||
|
Child
Support and Family Support |
4,304 |
4,555 |
69 |
1.6% |
|
Children's
Research and Technical Assistance BA |
34.4 |
107 |
72.5 |
211% |
|
Low
Income Home Energy Assistance Program |
3,390 |
3,769 |
379 |
11.2% |
|
Child
Care and Development Block Grant |
2,761 |
2,962 |
200 |
7.2% |
|
Children's
and Family Services Programs BA |
11,
234 |
11,735 |
501 |
4.45% |
|
Refugee
and Entrant Assistance |
1,675 |
2,185 |
510 |
30.5% |
|
Total,
ACF Discretionary Programs |
19,120 |
19,952 |
832 |
4.4% |
|
Temporary
Assistance For Needy Families BA |
17,345 |
20,097 |
2,752 |
15.9% |
|
Total
Mandatory Program BA |
34,277 |
43.051 |
8,774 |
25.6% |
|
Total
ACF BA |
53 |
63 |
10 |
18% |
|
Administration for Community Living
(ACL) |
||||
|
Health
and Independence for Older Adults |
1,256 |
1,280 |
24 |
1.9% |
|
Caregiver
& Family Support Services |
176 |
178 |
1 |
0.9% |
|
Vulnerable
Adults |
50 |
52 |
2 |
4.0% |
|
Disability
Programs |
385 |
385 |
0 |
0 |
|
Consumer
Information, Access & Outreach |
139 |
139 |
-- |
0 |
|
Total,
Program Level |
2,048 |
2,076 |
+28 |
1.4% |
|
Full-Time
Equivalents |
206 |
234 |
+28 |
13.6% |
|
Less
Funds from Other Sources |
-83 |
-83 |
-- |
0 |
|
Total ACL Budget Authority |
1,965 |
1,993 |
28 |
1.4% |
|
Total ACF BA |
53,397 |
63,002 |
9,606 |
18% |
|
Total Human Services BA |
55,362 |
64.995 |
9,634 |
17.4% |
Source: Administration for
Children and Families All Purpose Table FY 2017 no FTE data, ACL Budget FY 2017
7. Child
welfare must grow rapidly to eliminate 24% child poverty. Health spending and
state subsidies growth however must be limited to 2.5% annually. Because ACF
spending is mostly state subsidies, in the future it is hoped that ACF agency
spending growth will be limited to 2.5% annually, but it would not be wise for
Congress to deny the President's, possibly inept, attention to the nation's
undeniable child welfare priority. Will pay for free wifi
and electricity in city parks. To maximize utility Congress should request that
ACF be an independent agency with SSA so that the Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS) could change their name to Public Health Department (PHD)
and budget for the trillion dollar federal health spending
limit until national health expenditure is less than 10% of GDP. The
Administration for Children and Families, the ACF
administers more than 60 human services programs with a budget of more than $53
billion, making it the second largest agency in the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. The FY 2017 PresidentŐs Budget request for the
Administration for Children and Families, including both mandatory
(pre-appropriated and entitlement) and discretionary programs, is $63 billion
in budget authority – an increase of $9.8 billion from the FY 2016
enacted level, 18.5% growth. This spending growth must not be
questioned by Congress. It is absolutely essential for the United
States to support child welfare to make right the loss of 10 million permanent
AFDC benefits. Families with an adult who has received federally-funded assistance under
TANF for five cumulative years are not typically eligible for more.TANF benefits are too temporary to make
lasting reductions in child poverty. There is nothing wrong with dramatically
increasing TANF benefits 15.4% this once. The TANF program definitely requires
review. The job
placement requirement statistics are poor substitute for beneficiary data and
are unconstitutional on the basis of involuntary servitude. Welfare dependency
is not a crime, deprivation of relief benefits is a crime 18USC¤246. Because ACF spending, and most of the new
and old TANF, spending seems to be earmarked to support professionals rather
than beneficiaries, they are not administratively efficient welfare programs.
State Departments of Human Services aren't aware that they receive any
assistance from ACF. As a matter of administrative efficiency, since the
sabotage of AFDC benefits by the Clinton administration, it seems best to make
up for majority of the shortfall in child welfare benefits, with a historic
expansion of SSI benefits, prioritizing 14 million child SSI benefits, aiming
to reduce poverty by half and eliminate child poverty in schools, or end
poverty by 2020 if there is no continuing maximum allowable deficit (mad). In
2015 about 1.8 million children received Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
benefits of $733. Estimating 5
million TANF beneficiaries receiving about $17.2 billion annually that only
comes out to about $3,440 per family. Furthermore, these benefits do not last
longer than five years. SSI paid $8,796 annually in 2015. SSI is more administratively efficient
and permanent solution than TANF, that only last five years, for reducing child
poverty, a condition that is likely to last 18 years if their mother is poor at
the time of becoming eligible for maternity leave.
|
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Participation and Costs |
|
|||||
|
(Data as of June 5, 2015) |
|
|||||
|
|
|
Average Benefit Per Person |
|
All Other Costs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
Fiscal Year |
Average Participation |
Total Benefits |
Total Costs |
|
||
|
|
--Thousands-- |
--Dollars-- |
----------Millions of
Dollars---------- |
|
||
|
2013 |
47,636 |
133.07 |
76,066.32 |
3,866.98 |
79,933.30 |
|
|
2014 |
46,536 |
125.35 |
69,999.81 |
4,130.17 |
74,129.98 |
|
Source: Food
and Nutrition Service (FNS)
8. The USDA has totally deprived more than a million
people of their food stamp benefits and cut nearly everyoneŐs benefits since
October 31, 2013. There were 47.6 million SNAP beneficiaries at a cost of
$79.9 billion in October 2013 and 46.5 million beneficiaries at a cost of $74.1
billion in 2014 a reduction of 1.1 million beneficiaries. During the
Great Recession the number of food stamp beneficiaries rose dramatically from
28.4 million in 2008 to 44.7 million in 2011 at a total cost of $37.6 billion
and $75.7 billion respectively, but since October 2013 more than a million
beneficiaries have lost their benefits. The 2008 farm bill (H.R. 2419,
the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008) was enacted May 22, 2008
through an override of the PresidentŐs veto. The new law increased the
commitment to Federal food assistance programs by more than $10 billion over
the next 10 years. In efforts to fight stigma, the law changed the name of the
Federal program to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP as of
Oct. 1, 2008, and changed the name of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to the Food
and Nutrition Act of 2008 promising not to cut benefits. Additional
Recovery Act funds were terminated as of October 31, 2013 in accordance with an
illegitimate Republican interpretation of section 442 of the Healthy,
Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-296). The cuts were deep and
totalitarian, as has happened so many times before under the Food Stamp Act of
1977, the bureaucracy went agro, SNAP beneficiaries did not get the tenure
promised by Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 H.R. 2419, and the
longest uninterrupted growth in good stamp from the Farm Bill of 2002 was
brought to end. USDA and FNS must not cut SNAP benefits anymore.
SNAP benefits must grow 3% annually.
SMI Part B Premium Inflation 1967-2016
|
Year |
Monthly Premium |
% Change from Prior Year |
Year |
Monthly Premium |
% Change from Prior Year |
|
1967 |
3.00 |
100% |
1992 |
31.80 |
6.4% |
|
1968 |
4.00 |
33.3% |
1993 |
36.60 |
15.1% |
|
1969 |
4.00 |
0 |
1994 |
41.10 |
12.3% |
|
1970 |
4.00 |
0 |
1995 |
46.10 |
12.2% |
|
1971 |
5.30 |
17.5% |
1996 |
42.50 |
-7.8% |
|
1972 |
5.60 |
5.7% |
1997 |
43.80 |
3.1% |
|
1973 |
5.80 |
3.6% |
1998 |
43.80 |
0 |
|
1974 |
6.30 |
6.4% |
1999 |
45.50 |
3.9% |
|
1975 |
6.70 |
6.3% |
2000 |
45.50 |
0 |
|
1976 |
6.70 |
0 |
2001 |
50.00 |
9.9% |
|
1977 |
7.20 |
7.5% |
2002 |
54.00 |
8% |
|
1978 |
7.70 |
6.9% |
2003 |
58.70 |
8.7% |
|
1979 |
8.20 |
6.5% |
2004 |
66.60 |
13.5% |
|
1980 |
8.70 |
6.1% |
2005 |
78.20 |
17.4% |
|
1981 |
9.60 |
10.3% |
2006 |
88.50 |
13.2% |
|
1982 |
11.00 |
14.6% |
2007 |
93.50 |
5.6% |
|
1983 |
12.20 |
10.9% |
2008 |
96.40 |
3.1% |
|
1984 |
14.60 |
19.7% |
2009 |
96.40 |
0 |
|
1985 |
15.50 |
6.2% |
2010 |
110.50 |
14.6% |
|
1986 |
15.50 |
0 |
2011 |
115.40 |
4.4% |
|
1987 |
17.90 |
15.5% |
2012 |
99.90 |
-13.4% |
|
1988 |
24.80 |
38.6% |
2013 |
104.90 |
5% |
|
1989 |
31.90 |
28.6% |
2014 |
104.90 |
0 |
|
1990 |
28.60 |
-10.3% |
2015 |
104.90 |
0 |
|
1991 |
29.90 |
4.5% |
2016 |
159.30 or 107.50 |
51.9% or 2.5% |
Source: 2015 Medicare Report Table V.E2 SMI Cost Sharing and
Premium Amounts pg. 203 $110.15
9. The
CMS Actuary writes, Medicare Part B premiums may vary
from the standard rate because a hold-harmless provision can lower the premium
rate for individuals who have their premiums deducted from their Social
Security benefits. On an individual basis, this provision limits the dollar
increase in the Part B premium to the dollar increase in the individualŐs
Social Security benefit, the person affected pays a lower Part B premium, and
the net amount of the individualŐs Social Security benefit does not decrease
despite the greater increase in the premium. Because of the adverse Ňno COLAÓ
declaration for 2016 there was no increase in costs, however Table VE2 SMI
Cost-sharing and Premium Amounts is the cruelest and most unusual cost increase
ever. Income thresholds used for determining the income-related monthly
adjustment amounts to be paid by beneficiaries, resulting in a greater number
of beneficiaries paying the higher amounts. In addition, beginning in 2020, the
legislation adjusted the methodology used to index the thresholds, and
accordingly more beneficiaries will be subject to the income-related premiums.
In 2014 the initial threshold is $85,000 for an individual tax return and
$170,000 for a joint return. The thresholds are not indexed to inflation in the
years 2011 through 2019 but are indexed thereafter. Individuals exceeding the
threshold will pay premiums covering 35, 50, 65, or 80 percent of the average
program cost for aged beneficiaries, depending on their income level, compared
to the standard premium covering 25 percent. Because Social Security
beneficiary Cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are going to be set at 3% by
law, and in fact are only sometimes so generous, and there was a wrongful Ňno
COLAÓ pronouncement despite 300% OASDI trust fund ratio for 2016, it is
necessary that annual Medicare premiums cost increases be less than that, 2.5%
projects efficient growth, 2.5% Medicare premium growth from three years at
$104.90 in 2015 to $107.50 in 2016, instead of $159.30, would enable the
prospective social security beneficiaries of the Free Disability Insurance
Reallocation Tax (DIRT) and 3% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Act of January
1, 2016, to honor the hold-harmless provision, without years of negative, zero
or unsustainably 0.5% growth. The 2.5% health annuity liability law must be
applied to the Premiums advertised for the rich, but dishonored completely by
Social Security beneficiaries who got Ňno COLAÓ, so that CMS is liable to
credit the consumer for their overpayment. The monthly difference between
$159.30 and $107.50 is $51.80 in consumer credit that would reduce premiums for
the so-called rich non-beneficiaries, who agreed to pay, to $55.7 per month
that they overpaid. If they chose to discontinue their Medicare Part B policy
now they could collect cash but might face reinsurance penalties under current
law. The CMS Actuary should now be prepared to harmlessly complete a routine
2016 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance
and Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Funds in early May, in time to
honor the sixth month of the calendar year by accounting for the 2.5% health
annuity rule on Medicare premiums with compensation.
Federal Budget by Agency
FY 2015 2000-2020 (Millions)
|
|
2000 |
2015 OMB |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
|
Executive Office of the President |
283 |
506 |
519 |
532 |
545 |
559 |
573 |
|
Legislative Branch |
2,871 |
4,694 |
4,811 |
4,932 |
5,055 |
5,181 |
5,311 |
|
Judicial Branch |
4,057 |
7,584 |
7,774 |
7,968 |
8,167 |
8,371 |
8,581 |
|
Postal Service |
0 |
0 |
21,115 |
21,643 |
22,184 |
22,739 |
23,307 |
|
Department of Agriculture |
75,071 |
139,727 |
143,500 |
147,088 |
150,765 |
154,534 |
158,397 |
|
Department of Commerce |
7,788 |
9,607 |
9,020 |
9,246 |
9,477 |
9,714 |
9,956 |
|
Department of Defense |
281,028 |
584,319 |
495,000 |
495,000 |
495,000 |
495,000 |
495,000 |
|
Department of Education |
33,476 |
76,334 |
70,315 |
72,073 |
73,875 |
75,722 |
77,615 |
|
Department of Energy |
14,971 |
29,374 |
28,598 |
29,312 |
30,045 |
30,796 |
31,566 |
|
Department of Health and Human Services |
382,311 |
1,010,384 |
996,000 |
996,000 |
996,000 |
996,000 |
996,000 |
|
Department of Homeland Security |
13,159 |
47,456 |
39,155 |
40,134 |
41,137 |
42,166 |
43,220 |
|
Department of Housing and Urban Development |
30,781 |
38,088 |
39,040 |
40,016 |
41,016 |
42,042 |
43,093 |
|
Department of the Interior |
7,998 |
13,702 |
12,198 |
12,502 |
12,815 |
13,135 |
13,464 |
|
Department of Justice |
16,846 |
33,859 |
22,493 |
23,055 |
23,631 |
24,222 |
24,828 |
|
Department of Labor |
31,873 |
68,094 |
54,837 |
56,208 |
57,614 |
59,054 |
60,530 |
|
Department of State |
6,687 |
28,954 |
14,389 |
14,749 |
15,117 |
15,495 |
15,883 |
|
International Assistance Programs |
12,087 |
21,577 |
37,406 |
38,342 |
39,300 |
40,283 |
41,290 |
|
Department of Transportation |
41,555 |
84,252 |
90,900 |
93,173 |
95,502 |
97,890 |
100,337 |
|
Department of the Treasury |
390,524 |
572,593 |
525,005 |
538,130 |
551,583 |
565,373 |
579,507 |
|
Department of Veterans Affairs |
47,044 |
158,039 |
164,410 |
168,520 |
172,733 |
177,052 |
181,478 |
|
Corps of Engineers--Civil Works |
4,229 |
7,745 |
7,939 |
8,137 |
8,341 |
8,549 |
8,763 |
|
Environmental Protection Agency |
7,223 |
8,379 |
8,087 |
8,289 |
8,497 |
8,709 |
8,927 |
|
General Services Administration |
74 |
408 |
418 |
429 |
439 |
450 |
462 |
|
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
13,428 |
18,076 |
17,938 |
18,386 |
18,846 |
19,317 |
19,800 |
|
National Science Foundation |
3,448 |
8,103 |
7,436 |
7,622 |
7,813 |
8,008 |
8,208 |
|
Office of Personnel Management |
48,655 |
93,362 |
48,000 |
48,000 |
48,000 |
48,000 |
48,000 |
|
Small Business Administration |
-421 |
1,057 |
500 |
500 |
500 |
500 |
500 |
|
Social Security Administration (On-Budget) |
45,121 |
90,398 |
70,000 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Other Independent Agencies (On-Budget) |
8,803 |
19,413 |
19,898 |
20,396 |
20,906 |
21,428 |
21,964 |
|
Total on-budget outlays |
1,788,950 |
3,176,084 |
2,956,701 |
2,920,382 |
2,954,903 |
2,990,289 |
3,026,560 |
|
Undistributed Offsetting Receipts |
-105,586 |
-136,208 |
-145,297 |
-144,639 |
-145,067 |
-148,630 |
-149,793 |
|
Total On-budget Receipts |
1,544,607 |
2,612,500 |
2,794,600 |
3,163,600 |
3,348,100 |
3,445,800 |
3,604,700 |
|
On-budget Surplus/Deficit |
86,422 |
-427,326 |
-16,804 |
387,857 |
538,264 |
615,265 |
739,335 |
Source: OMB Table 4.1, Agency FY 2015 Budgets + 2.5%
annual growth, surplus dedicated to ending poverty by 2020
10. It is estimated OMB could reduce the FY 2015
deficit $293 billion, by $190 billion if OMB accounted more accurately for
agency budget requests and by the $103.4 billion that are saved by abolishing
the $57.4 billion Other Defense Civil Programs, and $46 billion Allowances
rows. Provided agencies aim for 2% annual spending growth with a 3%
limit, with the exception of DoD with a $500 billion
spending and Health and Human Services with a $1 trillion limit, balancing the
federal budget should become much easier. The Defense budget for FY 2013
was $495.5 billion FY2013, $496 billion FY 2014 and $495.6 billion
FY2015. Military
pay and benefits account for the largest share of the budget, $167.2 billion
out of $495.6 billion FY2015. The OMB
estimates are much higher, $608 billion FY2013, $593 billion FY2014 and $584
billion FY2015. The Department of Defense offers OMB the opportunity to
reduce the gross federal debt with three years valued of $295.9 billion
including the FY2015 deficit reduction of $88.4 billion. OMB must account
more accurately agency spending in Table 4.1. OMB must commission an annual
review of agency budget requests to improve the accuracy and predictability of
their accounting under Art. 2(2) of the U.S. Constitution.
There may be considerable retroactive relief due for agency budget officers who
prove to OMB that their lower estimates to be more accurate than the figures in
the OMB Historical Tables which are used to calculate the Deficit.
Accurate reporting is necessary to establish a baseline for predictable 2.5%
annual rates of agency spending growth. The federal government
usually runs on a deficit, with some famous exceptions, such as when Andrew
Jackson paid off the federal debt in 1835 and more recently when Bill Clinton
ran a surplus in 1998-2000, and is currently running the highest deficit in
dollar terms in national history, -$1.4 trillion in 2009, and -$1.3 trillion in
2010, 2011 and 2012 and is projected to improve to -$900 million in 2013, down
to -$530 billion in 2015 and going down for a short while before the accounting
fraud causes the deficit to grow again by 2018. This deficit is the second
highest as a percentage of GDP since WWII and the Confederacy during the Civil
War. Currently the federal budget teeters on the brink of the European
definition of a solvent 3% deficit at around -$500 billion. Only when the Allowances and
Other Defense Civil Programs rows are abolished from OMB Table 4.1 Outlays by
Agency will OMB be morally prepared to receive agency estimates. It would take
the OMB Director no more than eight hours to abolish the fictitious Allowances
and Other Defense Civil Programs rows and correct the book accordingly. Only
then could OMB hope to permanently balance the budget aiming for 2.5% on-budget
agency spending growth. The dangling debt from the Other Defense Civil Programs
and Allowances rows amounts to $360 billion debt reduction from 2009-2014 in
both OMB and CBO debt accounts and $103 billion in deficit reduction 2015. OMB
would avoid a 100.6% of GDP debt in 2013, 103.2% in 2014, 102.7% in 2015, 100.3% in 2017 before going down to 98.8% in 2018. The
revised debt peaks at a maximum of 100.1% billion in both 2014 and 2015 before
receding as the result of GDP growth before any other historical debt reduction
revisions are made by agencies, so that it as if the debt had never exceeded
100% of GDP. Another edition of the
federal budget will be needed to revise public health and welfare spending
estimates, to end poverty by 2020.
Sanders, Tony J. Book 3: Health and Welfare (HaW). 12th Ed. Hospitals & Asylums
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