No. of Recommendations: 1
The big problem is that a significant portion of Congress will not raise taxes. There is no other way, unless you want to take big bites out of Medicare and SS. Eliminating the CPB, and other similar proposals, don't even amount to rounding errors. And for the "bloated military" people (some on the extreme left), you could close the Pentagon entirely, disband all branches, and it still wouldn't be enough to close the budget deficit.
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We need a culture change in Washington despite a meager impact on the deficit. Who wants to waste money. It is just common sense.
We can't let a mentality set in that because we can't solve the whole problem in one stroke of legislative genius, so why solve any of it. Common sense, Respect for taxpayers, that is reason enough.
