Go back to the pre-neoliberal tax rates and have the highest income tax brackets go up to 60-70%?
Try one of the many online 'balance the budget" games like https://us.abalancingact.com/2022-federal-budget .
Total federal outlays in 1989 were $1,143,744M in today's dollars. That's less than is currently spent on Medicare and Medicaid, ignoring everything else in the budget.
So you'll have to make some pretty substantial alterations.
if only "essential" stuff like buying a home or a business got a loan, things would be much cheaper because overall there would be less interest to pay.
It’s always productive people that have to pay more to government. For less.
And government has zero accountability. Zero motivation to use our money efficiently. 600+ foreign military bases… $200 hammers…
Justify more government wastefulness… before taking my earned money.
you benefit from having the FBI, FDA, NLRB, FAA and even the EPA while people try to rob you, give you fake drugs, force you into endless debt and low pay, put you on dangerous crowded flights and crash railroad cars around you with cheap stinking chemicals that stay on your lakes and farms for years.
these companies would rather you shuttup and buy from the only two identical stores left who raised their prices.... and shut down the government for your own problems.
not theirs.