A flat tax and a VAT tax seem inevitable in the USA ...
Look toward real estate and financial transactions being taxable too.
The most substantive spending cuts could be made in military funding and federal funding to state and local projects.

Picking on welfare cheats is just saying "hey look at the monkey!"

Without social spending we would have to do like China -- that would be an improvement?

Wait 'till there is a 18% VAT tax on everything you buy like there is in Europe -- then you will really have something to bitch about.