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Pretty cool, but it assumes that many options are independent when they may not be...

If I "reduce military to pre-Iraq war size" and "reduce the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 30,000," can I really save the sum of $49 billion and $169 billion, or am I counting some reductions twice?

If I increase the medicare age to 70 and cap medicare growth, can I really save the sum of $104 billion and $562 billion?

Even assuming the revenues from taxes takes into account reduced economic activity / moving investments outside of the USA, etc., are there effects from combining them that would further reduce revenue?



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