Same old argument from the left, we need to increase taxes....how about this, we control spending.
Note, I am not saying do away with programs, I am saying that no new programs are needed and those already on the books are probably too expensive but they can be controlled by just denying increases. Flat spending and taxes increasing on inflated dollars will mean these programs attrit down and the drain the budgets will be eliminated.
If we also decide to eliminate the completely superfluous programs, the strain on budgets will go down quicker IMO. Government just seems to want to expand without bounds and that has become the mantra of the left.
Here is one more idea, if you are here illegally, you get NADA. We go back to the old program wherein immigrants had sponsors and if they could not make their way, their sponsors paid their “benefits”.
For example, on the national level, how many departments and agencies are ministering to the American Indians on their reservations? If you said the Bureau of Indian Affairs, you'd be naming only one of 17! What do these other 16 do that is so important? We should pare them to one and get rid of the duplication (and excess government drones).