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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
I was thinking they would start by raising the Social Security benfits age to 68. They might add a means test as well. Then eliminate Bush's added coverage to medicare. I'd go through all the government agencies and downsize where they overlap a State agency doing the same job. The Evironmental Protection Agency is an example of the Fed overreaching. They should be down sized with a smaller mandate which consists of overseeing only Federal lands and waters. Perhaps the Federal Government needs to look at wage and pension cuts for federal employees as well. This has already been done at the State level.
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You can do all of this and you still need to gut the military, close homeland security, end the war on drugs etc.
On top of this wage and pension cuts to federal employees will negatively affect the US economy on a huge scale, from an economic point of view tax increases for the rich is far less damaging.