There are 750 Billion dollars or so of uncollected Tax revenue because the IRS is under funded and under manned.
That's just the beginning. There are billions that could be realized by getting rid of tax breaks to oil companies for exploration. They do not need it. At all.
Then we could start on the military. We maintain over 700 foreign US bases. For what? We also ship billions overseas to support the militaries of other countries, like Pakistan, Israel and Eygpt. We've sunk some 300 billion into developing the Joint Strike Fight, a plane that never materialized and 70 billion or so into the missile defense program..a system that doesn't work. That's in addition to continuing to build weapon systems like Submarines..which are no longer very useful. They are easily detected and defeated by most major navys.
But heck..you probably voted for the guy who, basically on a lark, conquered Iraq and proceeded to go through every conservative doctrine to "rebuild" it using the money of American Tax Payers. Each and everything Bush did there..failed..and failed big time. It wasn't until Robert Gates and James Baker came in, probably at the behest of poppa, that things changed.
You guys are a laugh..sometimes.
Here's what really IS that simple, Obamacare funded the hiring of 25 THOUSAND new IRS agents. Has that fixed that mythical collection problem?
The fed BORROWED as much money last year to pay for unfunded liabilities and social engineering programs as it took in from federal income tax. And make no mistake, defense spending is only about 13% of the budget and it is one of the VERY FEW things the fed is doing that is is SUPPOSE to be doing constitutionally!
And it's true, the tax code is SCREWED. However, ALL tax deductions, exemptions or exceptions for EVERYONE should END. A flat 8% tax on gross income for every dollar earned IN this country or FROM this country would have produced MORE revenue last year than the current "progressive" income tax system would.
Unless ya have a solution...it's just WHINING brother!
As to the joint strike fighter and the rest of that diatribe, that's a joke...right? The British took delivery of their first F-35 joint strike fighters this year and there are orders for more than 200 of them from more than 10 different countries at an average cost of 125 to 150 million a copy, depending on the variant. And that 300 billion...INCLUDES the fact that the R-35 is a variant of the F-22 Raptor development program. The fastest, highest flying, most bad ass fighter on the planet!
Oh, and if that missile defense system doesn't work...just exactly WHY was Obama caught in an open mic moment reassuring the Russians that it would not be deployed if he's re-elected? OR why is it Israel and a dozen other countries either HAVE or ARE purchasing the systems? It's because they WORK and they are the best defensive system in the world.
If we don't understand that our national defense is one of the very few things the fed is directed TO do by the Constitution...it's going to be hard to have an intelligent discussion on the subject!
Are there bases that no longer need to be there? HELL yes, but to make it sound like our national security is not served by any of those bases is just STUPID!
THEN...to claim that we don't need overseas bases AND we don't need to maintain and develop a offensive Naval force either!?!? Well, that is beyond stupid. It's dangerously naive and idealistic!
And Iraq...REALLY? Can we just DRIVE ON! That is as lost in the past ideology as the democrats who can't let go of the Nam era and are driving this country into the damn ditch!
I don't care who you voted for, but to claim that Gates and Baker saved Iraq and in the same statement claim that EVERYTHING that Bush did in Iraq failed...well, the overt ideological incongruity in that speaks for it's self!
AND it's just further proof that there really ARE thoughts that should NOT be spoken out loud!