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In response to a common theme, yes, it will take revenue as well as cuts. Yes, defense spending should be cut, mostly by implementing reforms that DoD has already advocated for, like retiring legacy weapons systems and Cold War excess base infrastructure. No, I don’t advocate cutting existing SS benefits, but I expect that we will have to constrain their growth in the future.

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There seems to be a lot of confusion around my use of the term "entitlements". While I appreciate that some folks have negative connotations for the word, in this context, it just means non-discretionary spending. For instance, people who qualify for Social Security payments are entitled to them in the budget, while an example of a discretionary expenditure is the purchase of an F-35. When I talk about "entitlements reform" I am just referring to changing the structure of those programs going forward - through new revenue, cuts, or whatever else Congress chooses to do. I'm not really getting into any detail about that in this article about that.

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