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In reply to the discussion: You gave me a dirty look today for using my SNAP card, but I'm not mad at you. Indeed, I forgive you [View all]quakerboy
(14,058 posts)1) Universal health care. We spend in the range of 3 trillion on health care in the US each year. And we spend more than twice as much per person as other countries.
Logically then, if we each put in the exact same amount we do now, but changed the system, we would end up with an extra 1.5+ trillion to budget with. That solves your question all on its own
2) Im guessing a program like that would have a similar multiplier to what we get on food stamp benefits. Which means it would increase our economy and our tax base incredibly, helping to self fund.
3) 1.4 trillion spent on military overreach. I bet we could cut that by 1/3 without doing harm to anything except a few Contractor profit margins.
4) Returning tax rates to what they used to be, where the extreme wealth is expected to pay its fair share.