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1. How about government spending less defense
2. How about government spending less social entitlement benefits programs.
3. How about government start actually make some of the corporations that pay no taxes at all pay taxes, like somewhat reforming the expatriation corporate tax rules.[/quote]
These are all great ideas in theory, and would all be challenging to implement.
1. If the government spends less on defense, I would happily see most of those savings go to tax cuts for the rich. It’s a pipe dream, because there is so much pork barrel spending on defense it would take a huge, bipartisan effort that just won’t ever happen in our lifetimes.
2. I hate having all social entitlement programs lumped together. Are we talking welfare? medicaid? medicare? social security? The biggest problem with entitlement spending right now is a demographic one, and there are no easy answers to that. Plus, seniors vote in droves, so politically it’s almost suicidal to piss them off. I’m not sure there is room for huge cuts in entitlements without significant long term social costs.
3. I would love it if we could cut individual taxes while increasing corporate taxes. Good luck with that though; corporations are even better at dodging taxes than rich people are.
