Call me a cynic, but the fact that spending has to go down seems to be the crux of why this isn't that simple of a problem. How does the government cut spending? Eliminate entire programs that are staffed by people depending on the income.
Sometimes I wonder if the solution couldn't be as simple as having rich people pay a higher percentage of their income as taxes. Face facts, Bill Gates could live on ten percent of his income about a million times easier than we could live on ten percent of ours.
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