Raising taxes to Clinton-era levels wouldn't kill anybody. Ending subsidies to oil companies might help, as well as ending several wars. The size of the military payroll could be reduced, and a few bases could be closed - especially those in Germany, Japan, and other overseas places.
Aid to Israel and a host of other foreign countries could be reduced, too. All together, this might ease the strain on the federal budget, so that GOP attacks on teachers' unions, Medicare and Social Security might be curtailed. Both sides have to give a little.
Fix the tax system so everyone pays the proper percent, without ways to avoid paying. Reduce some of the 900 military bases all over the world. Tighten up qualifications for Entitlements.
Too many get benefits who don't deserve them. I'd help fix SS by removing the $111,000 cap on income taxed for SS.
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