The plan to save the USA

Let's try it.

Absolutely nothing to lose.

Repeal the 17th Amendment??? That is lunacy.

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Repeal the 17th Amendment??? That is lunacy.

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They should have just made Congress into a unicameral body when they passed it.

They aren't fooling those of us who pay attention.

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20% sales tax discourages transactions

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you get a 20% increase in your pay check, so you're neutral

besides, what about all that preaching that Americans consume too much and don't save enough?

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2) Eliminate federal income taxes (including constitutional repeal) and replace with 20% federal sales tax.

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I would rather flatten the income tax and eliminate all deductions. Plus everyone under 65 would have to pay income taxes. 5%, 10% and 20% tax brackets

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7) 10 percent across the board cut for all departments (cuts, not reductions in spending)

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The military and prisons should cut 20 %

I like the rest

Better idea.

1. Ban liberals from the USA.

Country fixed in 2 years.

I like the spirit of the idea, but we really don't need any new taxes. We need to stop hemorrhaging money on absurd entitlement schemes (includes those aimed at poor citizens and those aimed at business interests), corruption, and waste.

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Isn't military spending around half of the budget?

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Umm....no.

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Obama's 2014 budget proposed military spending of 627 billion out of a total budget of 3.78 trillion, equaling 16.58% of the budget.

BTW, non-SS/Medicare entitlement spending (Medicaid, CHIP, Food Stamps [105 billion, alone], Housing "assistance", unemployment insurance, etc.) totaled 799 billion in Obama's 2014 budget = 21.1% of the total budget.

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20% sales tax discourages transactions and thus would stifle the economy.

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Yes, people would have a little shock at the cash register. However, when they see no deductions coming out of their paycheck (at least federal), that would more than offset it. Plus, with a sales tax you can control how much tax you pay. The only way to do that with an income tax is to not earn income, or earn less.

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You're absolutely right. I didn't realize we counted SS and Medicare as taxes now. I always hear about the 47% who don't pay taxes. I hear about the 1% paying for x% of taxes and it never includes SS or Medicare because even low wage workers pay those taxes.

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People that throw out that number and NOT add the qualifier they are speaking of income taxes are being deceptive. Typically, they just say "taxes" and then correct it later.

That said, the purpose of the EITC is to offset those payroll taxes for low income workers. So, when the dust settles, most of them actually do end up not paying ANY taxes.

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Having said that, there's way too many bleeding hearts running the budgets of various governments up. Could definitely be cut.

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Can't tell whether you are serious or not. However, you could easily cut 5% off the top of every department's or agency's budget right now. 10% is also doable, but it would sting. Still, it should (and needs to be) done. Everyone else has to tighten their belts and look for savings when income gets tight...government should do so also (and should be the first to do it).

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Isn't military spending around half of the budget?

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No. Try entitlement programs (and the military still needs drastic cuts).

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The military (I'm retired military and currently work for the DoD) needs to be completely overhauled and the 5 branches need to be eliminated. Create 1 military and everything falls under it: you eliminate a TON of redundancies (policies, equipment, etc), you can reduce troop levels to something sustainable without the extreme increases and decreases, with 1 military force, you'll eliminate a lot of senior officers.