Brunner shares Johnson's call for a 'meat ax' to cut federal spending

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Brunner shares Johnson's call for a 'meat ax' to cut federal spending

In Backroom

12:46 am on Thu, 05.31.12

St. Louis businessman John Brunner, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, is embracing much of the message from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who told local Republicans that their party needs to “take a meat ax” to the federal budget should the GOP win control of the U.S. Senate this fall.

Among other things, Johnson says that the rising costs of entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare need to be reined in for future retirees.  Among the possible options: increasing the eligibility age and perhaps imposing means-testing, which would curb benefits for those with higher incomes.

Brunner called Johnson’s ideas “a common sense approach” that could help address the federal debt and the budget deficits.

Johnson, a successful businessman with tea party ties, was in town to help Brunner raise an estimated $50,000 at a fundraising event Wednesday in Clayton that was cohosted by some of region’s best-known Republican businessmen.
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