Budget Blanket Bingo

Gang of six, Ryan’s revolution, debt ceiling, that huge commission Obama created and never listened to. Confused?

Satire1 has been cataloguing the wide range of proposals coming out of Congress on how to address the long-term budget deficit. Chose your favorite three and email your Representative and Senator.

Tax candidate’s campaign funds as income. We all know they’re working for it.

Tax every church and nonprofit that doesn’t believe in my God.

Dissolve the Office of the First Lady. It’s nepotism pure and simple. The President should sleep with his running mate.
(Put the vice back in the Vice Presidency.)

Since the Moon is an American colony we should charge for the use of its image in foreign publications and video.

Extend the Death Tax to include a partial write off for salvation and heavy penalties for damnation.
(Don’t let the Devil get his due.)

Soak the rich.

Forget the poor.

Tax profits and fund losses out of existence.
(Level the playing field.)

Rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. Build three more US Treasury mints and get the presses rolling.

Set up special panels to investigate whether chronically ill patients on Medicaid or Medicare are secretly Canadian.

Return hospice care to the basements of funeral homes.
(Will cut health care costs in half.)

Raise Social Security eligibility to age 90.

Charge countries for their liberation.

Tax sex that doesn’t result in pregnancy.

Recalculate poverty level by global standards.
(Fifteen bucks a day, you’re fat.)

Don Arrup
Satire1