How would you reduce taxes and balance the budget?

>>60530288 (OP)
Get rid of all social security, letting the boomers die, the nationalizing healthcare which would save everyone money in the long run. Keep 10% Tariffs and making the EU spend on defense. Cut all money to Israel. Easy things

>>60530307
>nationalized healthcare saves money in the long run

Retard detected, opinion discarded

I would cut all government healthcare and use those savings to kick the social security can down the road

>>60530288 (OP)
what is this a jpg for ants?

>>60530322
>cut medicare (retiree healthcare) so we can put it into social security (retiree income)

>>60530288 (OP)
print more money

>>60530288 (OP)
boomers and older have to pay

>>60530329
Oy vey, can't you see?
Is because there's nothing to see.

>>60530350
This.
Printing money is actually the Uncle Ted approach. Is the fastest way to arson the whole system.

The sooner the better. Accelerate!

>>60530288 (OP)
Drastically reduce military spending, say by 50% like Trump floated out before ramping it the fuck up. It's nothing but entangling alliances and endless wars for either Israel or Europe, and ultimately an easier sell (although still a very difficult one).

Next, gut the bureaucratic nanny state so businesses can actually operate freely. The resulting increase in productivity might make it slightly easier to touch social security and other entitlement programs (social security definitely the big one tho) because people won't be as worried about grandma starving to death. Ultimately both of these are longshots, but you have to go after military and entitlements or you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Of course, all this assumes I can't just return the US to sound money and unilaterally nuke the system because idgaf about reelection.

>>60530346
Yes

>>60530391
I don't think Trump is ramping up military spending. He wants to cut 90k Soldiers.

>>60530480
My understanding was there were massive military expenditures in the bill he's trying to push through, and his saber-rattling over Iran does not inspire confidence. Plus, I really don't think most of our "defense" spending is coming from paying soldiers.

That said, there's been so much frothing at the mouth over the bill on all sides, so I wouldn't be too shocked if that was hearsay/propaganda.

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>>60530480
At the start of the year Hegseth was talking about making an ~8% cut to the DoD budget every year for the duration of Trump's term, but Trump's budget request to Congress (because really they're (supposed to be) responsible for the budget) has a 13% increase instead. And a substantial portion of that is going to meme vanity projects like the gold dome and the F-47, it doesn't account at all for the expense of even a short air war with Iran.
>>60530522
>I really don't think most of our "defense" spending is coming from paying soldiers.
At a glance personnel were about a quarter of the overall DoD budget for FY25. The DoD employs millions of people though so 90k would be a drop in the bucket out of that.

>>60530322
>>60530346
>>60530459
You're low iq

>>60530288 (OP)
why is health care so much of the budget, but prices for health care are high?

Spending Cuts:

Ukraine Aid: $61 Billion
Aid to Undocumented Immigrants: $70 Billion
USG Fraud and Inefficiencies: $325 Billion
10% Layoffs: $21 Billion
Halving Welfare Administration: $80 Billion
15% Military Spending Cut: $137 Billion
Eliminating the Department of Education: $238 Billion

Policy Changes:
Raise retirement age for Social Security and Medicare by six months: $56 Billion
Repealing the Jones Act: $5 Billion
Exiting the Public Housing Industry and Restricting Section 8 Housing: $50 Billion
Policies to reduce obesity, e.g., allow insurers to charge premiums based on body fat: $200 Billion

Revenue Generation:
0.2% Federal property tax on commercial real estate: $50 Billion
Tariffs: $100 Billion
Cutting Child Tax Credit: $30 Billion
10% Tax on Digital Entertainment: $10 Billion
Taxing Pornography: $30 Billion
Means-tested Social Security: $50 Billion
Charging OECD allies a 0.5% GDP military protection fee: $65 Billion

>>60530994
because private healthcare is a scam. i work in corporate at a major pbm. medicare part d mandates 100% rebate passthrough. commercial clients get scammed with rebate capture and fees on fees on fees, in addition to deliberately opaque pricing.

only retards think private healthcare is more efficient. the most efficient system would be a total elimination of private suppliers (including my job). it's middle men on middle men on middle men.

>>60531201
Are you trying to get a rise out of me? Because it worked

>>60531201
>>60531293
Prices would be exponentially lower if insurance and government weren't involved.

>>60531314
Insurance wouldn't be a problem if it worked as it's supposed too, as a casino where you bet when you're gonna die. It was the pre existing condition law that forced them to turn into redistribution schemes, because now they are legally forced to take bad bets with negative ev and spread the cost amongst the other gamblers

>>60530288 (OP)
>How would you reduce taxes and balance the budget?
Cull society of the extremely aged (72+), the crippled (quads, the blind, the deaf), the retarded (downies, mongoloids, autists, epileptics, dwarves/midgets), the obese (anyone over 350 pounds for a man, or 260 pounds for a woman), and then cull the criminal class (anyone that has more than one felony conviction, or a pattern of misdemeanors)

No more foreign interventions, if someone wants USA to help we will launch nukes at the problem country as well as the country that asked for our help. Solve your own problems.

>>60530288 (OP)
Healthcare will continue to grow as a percentage of GDP because the industry isn't getting more efficient as quickly as others. There will be more nurses and fewer programmers and factory workers in the future. We shouldn't be paying for all that through the government. I would end Medicare, Medicaid and ACA subsidies, expand Social Security to the point where it's a UBI program (but with the elderly still receiving much more), double income taxes and increase corporate income taxes. It's fine if the Treasury wants to use more tricks to keep interest rates down, as well.

>>60531201
The government is currently a more efficient health insurance administrator than the big private companies. (But consider that the IRS handles collections and GSA helps out and so on.) The government is also better at standing up to providers and keeping costs down, though that money partly comes out of providers' R&D spending. I think with deregulation, the private sector would probably do better with the first issue and about the same with the second. I think that's fine.

>>60530288 (OP)
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>>60531511
And if you say this is brianrot, you are gay and i can prove it mathematically, 69 trillion points to gryffindor, Harry and his stooges are bilbo teabaggin your sister n sheeet, no cap

Half the defense budget, get rid of social security entirely, spend the savings on healthcare and scientific research. Everything else can stay the same.

>>60531432
the government doesn't administrate medicare part d. claims adjudication and formulary management are all outsourced to companies like my employer. i assume medicare health insurance is the same. if they administered itself on a single, unified system and negotiated directly with drug manufacturers and hospital networks things could be even more efficient.

>>60531802
I'm gonna break this down so simple a 2nd grader could get it

Paitent>government >doctor is less efficient than paitent>doctor. If not 1000% self evident, it's because there is 2 parties instead of 3

>>60531940
a doctor is never going to deal directly with a patient you retarded nigger. they don't want to deal with pricing, credit worthiness, collections, or any other administrative crap. this isn't the 1920s. modern medicine requires a lot of expensive shit and the services are expensive, even without middle men.

>>60530307
>nationalizing healthcare
>saving money
ur as retarted as u sound

>>60530288 (OP)
Buyout social security as much as possible. Cut social security from anyone who hasnt paid in. No cost of living adjustments. Close out all mil bases except in western hemisphere (N and S America). Cut tariffs on Canada and Mexico if they reciprocate. Every other country 47.5% minimum. Phase out entitlements within one presidential term. Fire Elon. Sunset on H1B- again, one presidential term. Fast track Central American citizenship if provable skills and clean criminal record. Cap the number of immigrants to 250,000/ yr. Heavily weighted to European natives and Central/ South American natives. Few SEA and ME. Eliminate income tax, raise interest rates to 20%. Abolish central bank and take the credit hit. Eliminate entire pickle factory and pickle factory workers that dont self deport get sent to Guantanamo. Drill for oil, dig for coal. Setup Golden Dome missile defense. Encourage nuclear energy. No subsidies for solar or wind. Post of nasty girls in every sanctuary city until public trials end with hangings where appropriate. Teach the Bible in all schools, shut down any school that resists. Within 10 years will be the zenith of America's Golden Age.

>>60532038
>>60532091
You are low IQ. Remember that next time you're speaking aloud.

>>60532029
You are lost in the sauce

Ignorant to the obvious

>>60532091
>Fast track Central American citizenship
brown hands typed this post

>>60532109
okay mister welfare NEET. as an industry insider i must have no idea what I am talking about.

>>60532136
Ad hom+appeal to authority

>>60531317
This.

>>60532147
explain to me how 1 patient is going to negotiate a better deal with 1 doctor than an insurance company representing 100,000 patients and with audited financial statements that show operating margins of <10%.

>>60532104
u r as stopid as u look

>>60532162
https://thefederalist.com/2014/05/15/the-myth-of-bulk-buying-in-health-care/


Every argument you can think of can be googled

>>60532231
>Sean Parnell is the author of The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare hoices in the Age of Obamacare and blogs at www.TheSelfPayPatient.com.

really makes you think about conflicts of interest and the validity of his 65 IQ analysis.
true or false: CMS medical reimbursement is HIGHER or LOWER than private insurance medical reimbursement?
i wonder why this is the case...

>>60530288 (OP)
The main problem is just that people in the government and civilians just don't care. The politicians are just going to get paid to support whatever dogshit they get paid to and people will do nothing about it. I forgot if it was medicaid or medicare one of those aren't even allowed to negotiate for better prices they would get sued if they didn't just buy the drugs at a massively hiked up rate. How long did it take for insulin which only cost a couple of dollars to make and people need to live take to get regulated to an affordable price

>>60532273
the inflation reduction act has a provision which allows for CMS to negotiate for lower drug prices. it actually saved quite a bit of money.