Obama: Cut the deficit by taxing the rich

[Mr Khan]

HappySqurriel said:

The US government doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem ...

The problem being that "cut the budget" always seems laser-targeted on cutting off medicare and other necessary entitlement programs, when these programs are quite honestly not comprehensive enough.

Revenue alterations are the only alternative, that and eliminating waste and streamlining programs without reducing benefits (and eventually increasing the benefits as is the only ethical long-term option).

And there is definitely a revenue problem when we're leaving so many groups that should be shouldering more of the burden paying absolutely nothing (or being owed money by the government, like GE)