BUDGET ACTIVITY

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Defense

Education, Infrastructure, and Research

Social Security

Health Care

in billions

End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan $690B

Limit Highway Spending to Current Revenue $160B

Progressively Slow Benefit Growth, Protecting Low Earners $110B

Reduce Disability Insurance Program Cost $100B

Repeal Individual and Employer Mandates $320B

Reduce Prescription Drug Costs $220B

Allow Private Plans to Compete with Medicare $220B

Debt as Percentage of GDP

68% 2028

Other Domestic Spending

Individual Income Tax

Other Taxes

Reduce Environmental Spending $100B

Require States to Cover One-Quarter of the Cost of Food Stamps $220B

Eliminate the State and Local Tax Deduction $1240B

Establish a Floor on Giving for the Charitable Deduction $260B

Eliminate the Domestic Production Activities Deduction $200B

Repeal Targeted Corporate Tax Breaks $220B

Increase Taxation of Foreign-Earned Income $440B

Enact Financial Fee on Large Institutions $110B

Enact a Value-Added Tax and Partial Rebate $1160B

Restore Estate Tax to 2009 Levels $180B

Increase Cigarette and Alcohol Taxes $170B

Defense

690

Investments

160

Social Security

1310

Health Care

760

Domestic

320

Income Tax

1500

Other Taxes

2480

40% 2050

Savings relative to current law (billions) $ 7220

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