Wiseacre
Retired USAF Chief
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Cut spending?
First thing is to put teeth into fraud laws on medicare and such.
Make the finiancial fine for medicare, etc fraud to be 200% of the wamount that the govt was defrauded. No more of this just a cost of doing business.
Cut off 25% of foreign military bases.
Cut off all corporate welfare. Including farm subsidies and such.
Pull troops from Afganistan and Iraq.
Reduce sixe of military by 25%. We would still be the worlds largest in terms of spending.
Increase benefits age for SS benefits and raise the withholding. Also do not allow any surplus to be spent.
Allow Medicare Pard D to bargain for prescription drug prices even going out of country to obtain cheaper drugs.
Make gas tax a percentage of gas price not a flat per gal tax to enable the tax to provide for road upkeep.
Pass a flat income tax on ALL personal income with no deductions.
Yes this went beyond cuts but more than just cuts is needed.
Almost all of this is raising taxes and cutting defense. Very little of it is actually feasible, politically speaking. I like the idea of the flat tax with no deductions and getting tougher on medicare cheats.
Ahh you hit on the main reason we are where we are. Political feasability.
We need logic and reason not politics.
True enough, but a little guts wouldn't hurt either. So none of the lefties around here are willing to step up and say that Obama and the dems are cowards for not offering a plan to cut spending? None of you are willing to accept the fact that the president and the dems have failed to show any leadership? Throwing bombs at Ryan's plan without offering any details about your own budget does not qualify as leadership.