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A couple of problems with your points:
1. The Democrats seem to want to fix a number of problems by phasing out the Bush tax cuts...Obamacare's costs, the deficit, the debt, etc. I'm sorry, but y'all are gonna have to choose. That rise in taxes just won't cover it all.
2. Speaking of the rise in taxes...do you seriously think the Public will approve an increase in their taxes so that the government can TELL them what to buy?
3. "making the government more efficient"...do you even think that is possible? Has the government ever done that before?
4. "drawing down our military..."...National Defense is mandated by the Constitution...unlike any of the entitlement programs that eat so much money...and is the LAST place to cut. Start with the entitlements.
1: Actually some of the cost being paid of the healthcare act comes from the actual mandates themselves, and mixing it up with current social funding. As for the rest of it you can get all of it taken care of with being more efficient.
2: Do you seriously think that the small percentage that could see this increase won't get most of it back anyways, and are voters in the first place? You don't think they would ever, ever need medical coverage anyways that will ultimately steadily decline in cost?
3: The IRS is more efficient than it was previous, government jobs are slowly being cut due to more automation, it just takes welfare reform with the right balance to get much of the major problems taken care of. If everyone quit acting like dicks for 10 minutes it certainly can happen.
4: Even in 2001, our military's budget was more than all other countries combined. Why the hell does it need to be so big? Why does our intelligence budget have to be so big when most of the agencies go through so many bottlenecks and bureaucracy that it actually hurts our national security? Good place to start would be to repeal the PATRIOT Act.