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Anonymous wrote:Change the tax laws for nonprofits. Make most of them taxable.

Tax the wealthy and corporations first, and then start looking at nonprofits.

Tax churches and religious organizations that get involved in political campaigning, many of them have been severely pushing the limits of 503(c) given some of them engage in overt activities like robocalls, attack ads and political advertising, and so on. And I still am pretty damn annoyed over the crap from a few years ago where IRS got lambasted for "going after" conservative groups applying for 501(c) status. IRS horribly mishandled the whole situation but the issue is that those orgs should have been flat out denied in the first place. If the name of your group is something like "Tea Party Patriots" I have absolutely NO idea how you could ever claim you're "non political" for 501(c) status.

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obturningrussian wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let alone $36 trillion? Any ideas?

#ThingsILoseSleepOver

im not and never will be good at economics, but im going to say maybe "taxing the rich" or something, which will never happen under this administration

I'm guessing you've never run the math on that idea.

Anonymous wrote:Change the tax laws for nonprofits. Make most of them taxable.

Anonymous wrote:Let's start with the identified $800 billion in fraud alone last year. Another $200 billion will easily happen once deportations ease the pressure on public goods and services. Another $200 billion will easily come from the freezing, retirement and elimination of welfare government jobs.

Anonymous wrote:Let's start with the identified $800 billion in fraud alone last year. Another $200 billion will easily happen once deportations ease the pressure on public goods and services. Another $200 billion will easily come from the freezing, retirement and elimination of welfare government jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's start with the identified $800 billion in fraud alone last year. Another $200 billion will easily happen once deportations ease the pressure on public goods and services. Another $200 billion will easily come from the freezing, retirement and elimination of welfare government jobs.

How are you going to eliminate fraud if you get rid of those in charging of finding the fraud?

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Anonymous wrote:Tax the super rich. No one should have enough money to buy a president anyway. Solves two problems.

Cato, 2023 ran the math.

If Congress confiscated every dollar earned by individuals and businesses past their first $500,000, it would still be about $200 billion short of covering the cost of next year’s projected $1.7 trillion deficit—unrealistically assuming no behavioral or other economic effects from taxing 100 percent of earnings.

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Anonymous wrote:Change the tax laws for nonprofits. Make most of them taxable.

This plus places of religion like churches.

Anonymous wrote:There aren't enough rich people.

Look at where the federal dollars actually go. We need to do something about reducing spending on Social Security, Medicare, and the military. We also need to increase tax revenue (through increases and improved enforcement of existing laws).

None of this is hard, but no one wants to even talk about any of these. Cutting spending on government programs isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is the spending equivalent of arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. We need to go after our biggest expenses. It will be painful to do this, but less painful than if we ignore the problem until everything implodes.