(06-07-2025, 09:14 AM)Jag149 Wrote:

(06-06-2025, 08:28 PM)mikesez Wrote: Of course, but in doing so you will be making severe cuts to Defense, Social security, and Medicare.

Actually, there is more than enough tax money. (If used properly and not stolen)

Pass legislation requiring the CBO to show their formulas and work. Also, rotate employment there. Transparency is key here as it is a tool we need. They overestimated the effect of the first Trump tax cuts and underestimated the effect of Biden spending. This shows they are a political entity and of little use to the congress or the people. 
Do the tax cuts. The government is the most ineffective and inefficient money spender known to man.

Eliminate the waste and fraud from entitlement programs.
Add the work requirements for able bodied people to receive.

Establish a modest tariff rate on non essential industries. (10-20%)
Establish a penalizing rate on essential industries. (steel,Aluminum, etc)
This is a usage tax. It will give everyone the option of buying a domestic product or paying more for one imported. The rich will be the ones opting for the latter and therefore pay more of the tax. They also consume more resulting in the same.

All entitlement programs are to be rolled back to pre-covid levels. Covid is over.
Legal Aliens that have contributed to the entitlement programs get benefits in line with their contributions to them.
Illegal aliens get no benefits from entitlement programs.
Illegal aliens are deported. 
Illegal aliens can go quietly where they can get in line. or if we need to go to court to deport them they are banned permanently from entry into the US..
Those seeking asylum still go. If they do not wish to return to their country they have many to pick from...choose. Kind of like the song. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here"

Teachers need to teach. They have no right to discuss sexuality with adolescents. If you have the need to talk to an adolescent about sexuality you are not a teacher you are a predator and should be treated as such. 

No school may admit a "guest student" without the approval and vetting by the State department. Those schools found being funded by foreign governments lose all accreditation.