Solution: cut taxes for average taxpayers, balancing the budget by cutting spending. Everyone has a favorite program, so to make it politically easy, just cut e

Solution: cut taxes for average taxpayers, balancing the budget by cutting spending. Everyone has a favorite program, so to make it politically easy, just cut every program by the same rate. At the turn of the last century, government spending was something around 3% of GDP. Today, it's about 36%. This figure goes way up whenever there is a new war or entitlement program. It can be cut.