Social Programs

I don't understand a lot of what goes through a politician's mind. I was listening to the radio and they were talking about the different proposals for the budget for the next year for the United States. One would keep taxes low, but cut medicare insurance funding and the other one would raise the taxes and focus more on social programs. I feel that we should focus as much as we can on what is going on in our country and fund our programs the best we can. If it means a raise in income taxes, so be it. At least we will have more funding for the programs we use everyday.