Reverse the last two Republican tax cuts, wait a few years and reevaluate.

If we convert to a land value tax we could cut all other taxes (income, payroll, corporate, capital gains, etc.). Then with the roughly 500 million acres of non-agricultural private property in the United States treating every acre equally the tax rate would be $14,000 per acre to raise $7 trillion. That covers the current ~$6.7 trillion Federal budget (including the current deficit) plus a few extra 100 billion dollars to start paying down the over 30 trillion in debt.

Slightly increasing the Social Security cap would go a long way towards it.

The lowest the deficit has been in the past 20 years was the year Obama handed things over to Trump. The lowest it's been in the past 30 years was the year Clinton handed it over to Bush.

Maybe stop giving control of our purse strings to the people digging us into this situation.

Billionaires, billionaires billionaires, billionaires!

And multimillionaires,

and somewhat the millionaires.

See also, this post which is one of the most succinct statements on the state of taxes, spending, and the deficit that I have seen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224201#43224843