It's not tricky at all. When you're the richest country in the world and you have a lower than average tax rate, there is one very simple trick that gets rid of the debt problem.

But that is not what the US voted for, is it?

IIRC Trump's campaign promised lower taxes, not higher taxes.

He's raising taxes on most people. He didn't talk much about taxes. He campaigned on immigration and trans issues, mostly.

No one could have seen this coming. Why didn't anybody warn US voters at all!

What if I told you there is an amazing way to eliminate the national deficit, begin paying off our debts and reduce the taxes on the vast majority of people in this country without cutting costs indiscriminately...

I, and many others, don’t agree that we need to reduce the debt.

We need to ensure it grows a bit more slowly then gdp. On average, slower in boom years, faster in recession.

> everybody seems to agree that countries should reduce their debt

The GOP’s budget proposes $2 trillion in new deficits over the next 10 years. Nobody is reducing debt. Ironically, the only deficit move to date from the Trump administration has been tax increases in the form of tariffs.

I think the complaints are more to do with how it's being done.

Yeah real tricky, cut the budget of a department that is already underfunded that protects our public lands and does honest work serving the public, while cutting taxes on corporations and the ultra rich. Only a bootlicker would find anything tricky about this.

The US budget deficit is driven by entitlements and the Trump tax cuts . It's very easy to balance the budget with small reforms to Social security and Medicaid and raising some revenue.

No, a lot of people have been tricked into thinking austerity is the only way to reduce their country's debt.

All the while billionaires gorge themselves on public money and contribute ever less to society.

It's not tricky, because costs are _not_ being cut -- the next budget will _add_ at least $2T to the deficit.

We're cutting the NPS, USFS and BLM so that we can increase the defense budget by $150B (with a B) and send troops to the Mexican border.

Not a good trade-off at all.