Love the concept. Haven't dug into the details, but this is absolutely the right mindset.
"This is the first time that an administration has written a budget through the perspective of the people paying the taxes," Mulvaney told reporters Monday night.
...calls for $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid and a $193 billion reduction in food stamps over the next ten years.
"We are no longer going to measure compassion by the number of people on those programs. We're going to measure compassion by how many people we can get off those programs," said Mulvaney, who added that there would be a work requirement for some Americans to continue receiving food stamps.
"If you're on food stamps and you're able-bodied, then we need you to go to work," Mulvaney said.
This statement is false. We didn't have a permanent personal income tax until 1913. Prior to that, the USA did have a tax from time to time during wars.
Back when we operated on a balanced budget.