GE,who's CEO is a big Obama supporter, has shut down factories in the US and moved them overseas. Jobs are there, but the free trade agreements are not FAIR trade agreements. If the products sold in the US required the companies to have a minimum of 40 hr work week laws, child labor laws, and provided social security, and medical benefits to their foreign workers, then maybe they might come home and provide these jobs here, thus relieving the health care problem and the tax revenue problem.
We need a flat tax on all income whether earned income, or income from investments.
We need to keep mortgage, dependents, health care costs, and charitable contributions deductable, but simple.
Tax write offs for corporations should be for jobs created, American made equipment purchases, charitable contributions, health care provided to employees.
No government expense for farmers NOT to grow crops, but allow them to grow, and buy excess with the same money for stockpiling food for bad years, emergencies, etc.
No government support for the arts, we really can't afford it.
No government support for welfare over a certain length of time for able bodied people. No child supports over two children.
Eliminate FEMA, turn this over to the national guard. The guard has all the equipment and training necessary for emergencies. People who loose homes, should be scattered to nearby towns not affected and help the families get relocated either temporary or permanent, not in government ran trailer parks that sit idle.
Military bases in friendly foreign bases should be closed, like Germany, and troops brought home and placed on the southern border to help keep illegals out.
Manufacturers who make things in America shouldn't either be taxed or have low taxes because they provide jobs here.
I don't see why any of this would be so hard.