Fair question, my suggestions are:

* Halve military spending -- $3-400B/yr
* Extend Bush tax cuts only on income under $250K/$500K incomes -- $300B/yr
* I think you have to start pushing up the retirement age on Social Security--it should track with increases in average US life expectancy
* I don't know enough about the medicare issues to have a sense what to do here...

That's gotta be near a trillion per YEAR on my plan..

What's your plan? 10% reduction in military, okay, that gets you $70B. Only $930M to go. Oh, did you want to extend all those bush tax cuts, now you've got $1270B to go (that's right, nearly $1.3T).


Edited by IrishRogue (10/06/10 03:12 AM)
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