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As a general rule, you could remove any government agency created with the increase in wartime tax revenue after the war is over. That should get you back to the pre-war tax rate.

Pre war federal spending was ~10% of GDP. Currently we're at about 25%. So you want to cut federal spending by about 60%.

Medicare is about 15% of the fed budget. Social Security is about 25%. That's the 40% you get to keep right there. You think we should cut literally everything else?

Your assessment about what it would take to achieve the cuts you propose is not based in reality.



I would cut Medicare and Social Security entirely.


Okay so what happens to the 30 million people that literally have nothing else to live on? 65 years old, no savings, failing health.

Round them up and shoot them I guess?


It may help to think of the suggestion as more a "We never should've passed it in the first place" rather than a suggestion to immediately propose a bill of repeal.

I have some thoughts on how to conduct an orderly shutdown of the programs over, say, 30 years, but they would take the thread too far away from the subject of stock options.




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