I love the idea of reducing the budget and my and all our taxes, but where would you cut to get us to $800 billion when the full (not base) military budget is almost $600 billion. Here are some useful graphs for people who want to tackle this challenge.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2013/president-obamas-fiscal-year-2014-budget/
“military budget”
Two things.
One, the feds shouldn’t have a lot more than the military since defending our country is basically their only job.
Two, do you know how much of that $600 billion is waste? Probably if they cut the waste and then modernized our military to the best in the world like Reagan did, it would probably be a wash.
So the balance of $200 billion - necessary for what constitutionally authorized activities of the feds? Not welfare, not social security, not socialized medical insurance in its various forms. To be constitutional, most of the cabinet, bureaucratic departments, and Administrative State regulatory agencies MUST GO. PHASE them OUT.
Should it happen? Yes. Could it happen? Yes. Will it happen. Not without a miracle. Your biggest problems are the portion of the public that’s become addicted AS PLANNED to government dependency and, of course, the near impossibility of sending home packing your hundreds of thousands of government workers, bureaucratic heads, and officials without a job.
Not a pretty picture but might as well be realistic about the problem - keeps us from false solutions and hopefully helps gain insight into how to chip away at this thing.