skafather84 wrote:
Create new, higher tax bracket, raise capital gains taxes, raise income taxes on the upper bracket, cut spending on defense and the war on drugs and The War Against Terror. Cut prison and law enforcement costs by eliminating vice laws, increase income through regulation and taxation on the newly legal vices.
This sounds about right. Our defense budget annoys me the most. We spend an absurd amount of money fighting wars that have either ended, or can't be won. Terrorism will never be stopped. If nothing else, we could at least be honest in our terminology and call it terrorism prevention efforts, or something like that.
The war on drugs is another good waste of money. Did we learn nothing from prohibition? We could be much more effective in our efforts if we cut the budget in half and spent it on treatment vs. criminalization. We spend more on jails than we do on schools in some cities.