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« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2013, 11:27:57 AM »

29% tax increases, 71% spending cuts.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?choices=wmxtrj5b

Eliminate farm subsidies.
Cut 250,000 government contractors.

Reduce arsenal/space spending.
Reduce military size and deployments.
Reduce fleets.
Cancel/delay some weapons programs.
Reduce noncombat military compensation/overhead.
Reduce number of troops to 30,000 by 2013.

Enact malpractice reform
Raise age to 68
Cap Medicare growth in 2013

Raise age to 68
Reduce benefits for high-income individuals
Tighten eligibility for disability
Use different inflation metric

Lincoln-Kyl estate tax
Payroll tax on incomes above $106K

Bowles-Simpson
Reduce mortgage deduction
Carbon tax
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