Interactive: You Fix the Budget

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- Eliminate Earmarks
- Eliminate Farm Subsidies
- Cut 250,000 Government Contractors
- Reduce Nuclear Arsenal and Space Spending
- Reduce Military to Pre-Iraq War Size and Further Reduce Troops in Asia and Europe
- Reduce Air Force and Navy Fleets
- Cancel or Delay Some Weapons Programs
- Reduce the Number of Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 30,000 by 2013
- Reduce the tax break for employer-provided health insurance
- Reduce Social Security benefits for those with high incomes
- Return the Estate Tax to Clinton-era levels
- Return rates to Clinton-era levels
- Allow expiration for income below $250,000 a year
- Payroll tax: Subject some incomes over $106,000 to tax
- Millionaire's tax on income over $1,000,000
- Eliminate loopholes but keep taxes slightly higher
- Reduce mortgage deduction and others for high-income households
- Bank tax

Projected 2015 shortfall: $418 billion
Projected 2030 shortfall: $1,345 billion

I can't bring myself to cut Social Security or Medicare.