Mac-7
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- Oct 9, 2019
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We freeze the current budget and reduce every spending program by 1% next yearWhat do you cut. Be specific. You need to cut $1T. Here's the Budget again. You can't touch mandatory, nor defense, nor discretionary, duh.
2021 Federal Budget
Outlays $4.88T
Receipts $3.86T
Deficit $1.02T
Discretionary Spending
Defense $753b
Non-defense $733b
Total $1.49T
Mandatory Spending
Social Security $1,115b
Medicare 746b
Medicaid 452b
Other 660b
Interest on Debt 379b
Total $3.39T
And every year till its balanced
That way everyone shares the pain equally