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In at least 500 words answer the following questions:

• Provide a justification of the budget choices you made within one of the following categories: Defense, Domestic, Social Security, Healthcare(you may NOT choose to focus on the categories labeled: “Budget Path,” “Other,” “Revenue,” or “Tax Expenditures”). In this defense you must address possible counter arguments to the budget decisions you made. If you are spending more under this category how are you going to get new revenue or gain public support for more deficit spending? If you are cutting funds – what are you going to do with these surplus funds?
• Discuss how this assignment impacted your understanding of the budget process, and the debates between the parties and within Congress have regarding the federal budget? Do you think anything should be done to streamline the current budget process?
• Discuss how difficult this would have been to do this activity as a group project – what budget issues would have been contentious? How could you have come to a compromise?

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Defense

Education, Infrastructure, and Research

Social Security

Health Care

Slow Development of New Weapons Systems
$70B 

Reduce the U.S. Navy Fleet from 272 to 230 Ships $130B 

Reduce Foreign Aid and International Program Spending $140B 

Replace Current Student Loan Subsidies with Income-Based Repayment $190B 

Limit Highway Spending to Current Revenue $180B 

Adopt the Chained CPI To Measure In�ation Across Government and The Tax Code $530B 

Raise Payroll Tax Rate by 1%
$540B 

Reduce Prescription Drug Costs $270B 

Reform Medicare Provider Payments $280B 

Block Grant Medicaid and Grow Per-Person Spending With In�ation $1030B 

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Defense

290

Investments

320

Debt as Percentage of GDP

70%

2028

40%

2050

Savings relative to current law (billions) $ 4360

Your Savings

Other Domestic Spending

Individual

Income Tax

Other Taxes

Require States to Cover One-Quarter of the Cost of Food Stamps $250B 

Gradually Phase Out the Mortgage Interest Deduction $560B 

Establish a Floor on Giving for the Charitable Deduction $300B 

Move to a Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax $220B 

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Social Security

1540

Health Care

1290

Domestic

220

Income Tax

680

Other Taxes
20