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Just want to point out that would be more than enough money for Universal Healthcare, something which might very well make more money than it costs since Healthcare in the US at 13% - 14% of GDP is using twice as much a fraction of the resources created in American as countries with Universal Healthcare use in theirs, so Universal Healthcare would free up a big chunk of the country's GDP for other uses.
The other thing that also needs fixing (and that's not just in the US) is house prices, which means Public Housing, though I suspect that would be "crazy Communism" for the average American given how stupidly brainwashed and undereducated they are in average.