In the spirit of tough compromises, perhaps the Congress can actually do something about writing a simple bill, which has three parts:
(1) End the "war on drugs."Leave the States to regulate the flow of "substance abusing" drugs through the traditional pharmacological supply chains, requiring prescriptions from two separate medical doctors with which a State-issued license for six months duration (renewable) is also acquired --- all three items required to make a drug purchase.
Drug users must surrender any and all transportation licenses --- that's right, no: driving, flying, boat, train, tractor, nor any other kind of motorized, solar-power, nor wind- operating vehicle, etc., and they cannot own nor keep such vehicles. They cannot own, keep, nor bear Arms.
(2) End the Long-Term (one year or more) Capital Gains Tax.
No reporting of Gains nor of Losses, for this year, and henceforth.
The country sorely needs the breathe of fresh, long-term investment, especially as a form of savings.
(3) End income-taxes on pass-book savings accounts.
(4) Begin a phase-out tax rate for seniors' interest income; as they get older, they pay a lower and lower income-tax rate on their interest income.