Pretty much cut everything but military. We don't need anything else really

>>202818
Every one not mandated by the constitution

Cut out all the welfare that goes to red states. They get more than they give annually. Fuck 'em.

Pretty much leave everything but military. We really need everything else.

Unemployment/Welfare
Department of Labour
Diminish spending in Social Security

Most if it is mandatory spending, so we can't cut it out. And the rest I have to say we actually could use in the long run. It's fucking sad, really.

I'd say make taxes more progressive, but I'd get flamed to shit for acting like a socialist.

>>202845

You liberals are the downfall of civilization. Who will be there to save you when the Canadians and Mexicans team up with Al Taliban to invade america.

that chart is so fucking useless, the colors are fucking repeating themselves. 3 maroons? 4 purples? what the fuck man

>>202854

How could you do that without pissing off millions of unemployed workers?

>>202861
>implying Canadians and Mexicans are right wingers like the Taliban

>>202861
I find it so sad that I cannot tell if this is a troll or not.

Everything. ESPECIALLY the military. Defense is actually the thing I trust the government least with.

>>202864
I didn't say this was politically viable. I said this is what would be the best.

cut the Federal non-military workforce by 80%. That should leave only the essential people. The Federal government was shut down in DC because of the snowstorm we just had. Did anyone notice?

>>202892
Yeah, I live in northern Virginia. The plows suck down here. Driving was a bitch. I don't blame them at all.

>>202859

>>202892
Don't many of the bureaucrats work outside DC?

it's worth remembering that Social Security is more than it normally would be in this chart thanks to the shitfuck of the economy. Also, this isn't the best time to go fucking with it.

But that said, we really do need to figure out SOME way of dealing with it.

We should get those fucking Bush tax cuts expired ASAP for a start, they'd help plug a bit of the hole.

God Damn gift to the wealthy. Did nobody any good, but more relevantly it wasn't paid for. If you want to cut taxes you need to cut spending too dipshit.

>>202818
Disgusting. 20% of all government spending is going to people who contribute nothing to the country.

>>202962
1. Raise taxes
2. Cut spending
3. Plug ears during long period of crying, whining

>>202951
There is a major Fed workforce in DC;that's where all the HQ buildings are located. It's the reason why the DC Metro area is doing so well as far as unemployment goes.

>>202994
No need to raise taxes. If they got rid of Social Security and Welfare, it would be a massive improvement.

btw, does anyone know what the ratio of tax income to money borrowed (per year) is?

>>202818
god its a good thing most of you are too stupid to be taken seriously. thats all

>>202991

Who, the military?

>>203126
I think he means everybody's grandmas

Bumping for non-racist discussion.

Also I'd cut out the department of agriculture almost entirely.

>>203024
Depends on year
Bush's 2008 leftover budget, after TARP, had 2.3 Trillion in receipts versus 1.4 trillion in deficit

federal and state expenditures have developed into a precariously balanced facade of a working system. I doubt any one program in this pie chart could be completely cut without causing more problems than the money saved could afford to fix. This leaves us with the conclusion that the only choices left are novel and significant sources of revenue or extensive modification of these programs.

Military(As in foreign bases), War on Terror, Energy, Department of Education, Healthcare, Social Security.

Put all the money from interest of foreign debt into the military.

That giant blue part that's Social Security will shrink as the Boomers die off.

Unless you want to cut it now and make sure that every senior citizen and everyone with grandparents don't ever vote for your party again.

God damn these colors are pissing me off some of them are only slightly different. I guess anything related to the wars. Higher taxes on the rich.

destroy Homeland Security. That's what fucking Defense is.

Social Security, Medicare, Medicade..., Unempoyment..., Interest on National Debt, US Dept. of Housing..., National Science Foundation, Small Business Admin....
And those are all I can think of without seeing deeper into other departments.

>Interest on National Debt
>Global War on Terror

>United States Department of Defense
>16.85%

>Other Off Budget Discretionary Spending
>1.27%
>You know, the important stuff like private jets, hair and makeup, basically things the very important leaders of America cannot live without. Good thing we don't owe anybody money...

I'd eliminate everything but defense, but even that would be taking some major cuts.

And by major cuts, I mean we'd be selling Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and closing all the overseas bases that aren't in Japan.

Also the Air Force would be rolled back into the Army.

destroy homeland security, cut defense in half, reduce global war on terror as much as humanly possible

Slowly phase out Social Security. If you cut it out now with all the boomers still alive good luck trying to have any senior citizen vote for you or your party ever again. Scale back military presence in foreign countries, implement flat tax rate for all income brackets, and over time increase budget for things that matter like the Department of Education, Dept of Transportation, etc

>>203961
Education should be entirely privatized.

>>203983
Though I dont hate the idea of a privatized education system, it worries me that it would eventually create a system where only the relatively wealthy could afford to send their children to school.

inb4 children of ethnicity/skin color other than white/white-american deserve education and the opportunities associated with education--lets keep this civil guys

everything... let it burn i say. no more taxes no more federal government


pic related

Military. With a fucking axe.
The air-force would become the Army Air corps, then I'd slash their combined budget by 30%

>>203838

Fuck that. I am in the Chair Force and I already hate having to fill in for Security Forces.

>>204056
Why would that happen? If there's a market for cheap education, someone would take advantage of that. And they'd probably do a better job than the current government.

It would divide children into school by their parent's wealth, but that's reality. It's not like it doesn't happen in college/university anyways.

To give the discussion some focus, I have blacked out an area equal to the budget deficit.

When Social Security was created, "retirement" age was roughly the same as life expectancy. I recommend we raise the current retirement age to the same... say 75. Medicare and Medicaid will also have a cutoff making everyone over 50 (who ought to have made enough money to support their own expensive healthcare, or take credit their own lousy lifestyle and their own failing health) ineligible... saving 90% of the costs. Then drop the R&D portion of the DOD. We're so far ahead of the curve the rest of the world will take decades to catch up, and we're still largely researching conventional weapons in the age of asymmetric warfare. Fuck it.

Problem solved.

>>204165
I just think that a completely privatized education system will be detrimental to the country in the long run and eventually leave an even larger gap between rich and poor.

If the feds were to phase out Social Security and Medicare and fill the budget hole they can focus on improving our shitty education system and the need for a completely privatized edu system would be unnecessary. Let the rich send their kids to private/charter schools but for most of America, a decent public education system is all that there is.

RAISE DEM TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY THATS WHAT OBAMA SAYS

I think the federal government should wipe my nose when I have a cold, wipe my ass when I get the shits. They should pay for me to go to school. I should get double desert when I go to restaurants, at government expense. Did I leave anything out?

>>204420
Yes, your new 70% tax rate.

>>204455
is that tax deductible? or my congressman won't vote for it

>>204471
You're in the wrong thread if you're looking for things congress would vote for.

OP..how about we get more specific...

Could we do without the Panama Canal Commission? We gave the canal back to Panama in 1999.

How about Amtrak? is the goverment the only entity capable of operating a railroad at a loss?

Which brings me to the Railroad Retirement Board, a facinating federal activity.

Not to be out done by the Postal Rate Commission. They decide if stamps should go up by one cent or two cents.

>>204556
There you just saved us, what, ten billion dollars? Great. The budget deficit is $1100 billion now. What next?

>>204572

>> Implying saving $10 billion form being waste is a bad thing

>>204572
The Federal Merits protection agency..all those un protected federal merits you know

The National Credit Union Administration, we all know the havoc credit unions have wrecked upon the nation

We all know, that once a Federal program is in place, we cannot end it, or, or , um we might save money if a program actually worked and we didn't need it in perpetuity

Why waste a perfectly good federal or state career by eliminating a useless program? Blasfamy!!!

>>202828
I agree... And this graph is depressing...

Cut taxes down to... Nothing. Tax companies who outsource jobs. Bring them back to America.

>>203961

The problem with this is.. Then you have the next generation paying into it and getting nothing back out. It was a scam to begin with, it benefited one generation unfairly.

I have hated Obama since the primaries, when I heard him say that he was willing to kill a slew of civilians if it was necessary take out bin Laden, but I thought there was at least a slight prospect that he would reign in war spending just a bit just to please the idiots that thought that he was any more committed to peace than Bush. I was, of course, wrong. I didn't think it was possible, but Obama appears to be more murderous and spendthrift than his predecessor.

>>204640
Its the Bernie Madoff generation

>>204648
Rest easy my friend. Obama's military exploits may be the only favorable rememberences of his administration.

I'd make social security and medicare more like actual insurance. You pay into it and if you end up in a shitty place at the end of your life you get it. If you end up well of then you probably wont notice the little bit of money it would be providing you.
I'd then start charging countries like saudi arabia for the presence of our military forces. If our presence is stabilizing their dictatorship then they should be paying for it. Pull out of our wars or let their corrupt governments start paying us to kill their enemies.

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