Originally Posted by Drewster

Or we could scale back our military industrial congressional (and arguably think tank) complex. Military/defense spending is so much every year we could save tons. At that point I bet we would be spending less than taxes bring in for sure. By scaling down the military we would make less enemies too. We could probably cut back on a lot of the intelligence services that are primarily military run at that point. We could probably cut back or eliminate atrocious bureaucracies like the Dept of Homeland Security too.