“These tax increases (for that is what they will prove to be) will affect the middle/upper middle class.”
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are going to need an infusion of funds that range in the TRILLIONS. How do you propose it be raised? Should those programs be cut? Good luck with that.
Nancy Pelosi, is that you?
OF COURSE those programs should be cut.
Here is my basic plan:
#1 - cut ALL the USELESS CRAP. NPR, CPB, Cowboy poetry, cow fart studies, all of that stuff, just stop funding it.
#2 - cut MOST of the possibly useful crap. UN Funding, aid to our enemies, aid to our friends, get rid of most of it.
#3 - end all pensions and other post-office benes for elected officials.
This would be my start, I realize it is probably not enough.
As to the military, I really don’t know enough to make any proposals, so I’ll leave that out.
As to the 3 biggies you mention I am not really knowledgeable about those either, but some things just seem to be clear.
#1 - Block grant medicaid to the states.
#2 - Possibly the Ryan plan for Medicare, income testing for Medicare, raise the age for Medicare.
#3 - Ongoing age raises for Soc. Sec. and re-jigger the increases to reflect inflation rather that “wages”.
#4 - Go through the fraud factory that is “Disability”, you can probably save billions by doing that.
So, those are my concepts.
Bottom line is the bottom line we have to CUT SPENDING.