It's like most people don't realize that currently trying to reduce the deficit would mean eliminating jobs. And by an overwhelming majority people favor job growth vs. deficit reduction. Which is why this whole debt ceiling theatre is pointless.
I'm also reposting this question, since no one decided to answer:
So what do you propose to eliminate the budget deficit? What tax rates are you going to raise and what spending would you cut?
I'm sure FSD can give me a quick answer that addresses how to make things right.
Well, the tax increase on those who make more than $400,000 gets us about 5% of the way there, so that's a good first step. The proposed increase on those making more than $200,000 would have been better. There are also a ton of things the government should do that would get us back on the right track. We could shave billions of dollars from the defense budget and nobody would even notice. Everyone seems to hate the TSA, so why not eliminate them and let airports privatize security? It's not like they have ever caught a terrorist. I also think that social security needs to be reformed so that it is just a social safety net and not a retirement plan. The government should not be giving payments to people who can afford to take care of themselves because those payments do not help the economy as much as payments to those who cannot. Also, no more medicare payments to those over the age of 80. They have already outlived their life expectancy, and it is enormously expensive to keep those people alive. The government needs to stop trying to do what is fair and start doing what is best for the productive sector of society.
LOL, that would be wildly rough ridin' popular.
(though I I don't disagree in principle)
As far as the DoD goes, the army basically doesn't even need to exist in it's current state. Once we finish in Iraq (lol) a massive land army isn't suitable for future conflicts, crap it didn't even work in Iraq that well and it's failing in A-Stan miserably. The Marines already have a suitable expeditionary force. The Navy and AF would have to remain large for power projection but the U.K. functioned like this for over 500 years and I think they had it perfected... I mean they practically took over the world with it.