Nope your not and idiot. Just the opposite as you think it through put out a thought and reasons for them and DO NOT sound like a sound bite or parrot.

Taxes are strange things. When I bought this place I almost picked up to different ones and they were both for sale by retired people who were selling as the property taxes had gotten so high they could not afford their own home. Now that is just plain wrong. We need to modify the property tax system similiar to what was done in CA or cap it someway.

Being your hopping out on a limb so to speak, mind if I join you? My ideas?

Soc Sec take the cap off and pay all the way up. Now you pay so much and stop but most folks never get there. Retirement age has to go up some and over 250K gross income no Soc Sec.

State and Fed flat tax ( no deductions ) and same rate for all. If the rate needed is 10% then if you make 10000 you pay 1k You make 100k you pay 10k no loop holes.

Sales tax state and a VAT national.

Flat rate ( whatever % of income is needed ) and a single payer health care that is managed by each state for it's citizens that allows choices and a public option.

Then the big thing, the Federal Government be required to balance its budget except in time of a legal declared war.

They do this type of thing I will join in saying I can afford it as the government will have to deal with services and efficiency. I have been around government agencies most of my life. Right now you give them more money and they will just continue down the same screwed up road.

That is the fundamental difference in European Governments say Germany & France and US. There governments make things work or crap flies and you have a Greece. We aren't there yet but getting close.