How much did you save? 2015- 418 billion, 2030- 1.268 trillion
What % came from tax increases? 16%
What % came from spending cuts? 84%
Choices that were easy were increasing the age of Medicare and Social Security. The easiest was capping Medicare growth starting in 2013. A harder decision was to cut the number of troops to 30,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Congress has to have people vote on everything and many times it is a very slow progress. It could also be overturned by a future Congress.
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