Republicans promised a balanced budget by 2024 but would do so at the trouble of poor people and seniors on Medicaid, lower income workers receiving "Obamacare" financial assistance, and the receiving food stamps and Pell Grants.Democrats countered with a plan that would leave Obama health care plan and rapidly growing health programs like Medicare intact, relying upon $1.5 trillion in tax hikes over the coming decade to bring deficits down to maintainable but still large levels in the $600 billion range.The GOP regime, By Budget panel Chairman Paul Ryan, R }