My wife and I discussed that idea yesterday...it will work! And everyone will have “skin in the game!” Watch the hog-sloppers in DC go ape over that...
I should have said: Apply the 5% taxation to all levels of income as a base minimum including the value of welfare payments and then reduce the salaries of all non-military federal employees by 5%. Now, this would be a little painful, but not excruciating and would allow movement out of this abyss that we currently find ourselves.