How to reduce the deficit responsibly.

The current mood in the country is to reduce the deficit and is the rallying cry of republicans. Progressives like me are wary to talk about the subject because we support spending. However our answer when we give it goes something like this no reducing necessary spending and let the bush tax cuts expire. My view is we need to end letting other countries free load of our military. We need to end our mission in Iraq which will save at least 40 billion dollars according to the congressional budget office. We need to raise high income taxes to the level they were in the Reagan era this will reduce the deficit significantly.
Republicans want to eliminate and reduce taxes. Marco Rubio’s platform would add $3.5 trillion to the deficit. The way they want to counteract that deficit creating machine is to reduce spending. But to reduce that much spending you would have to cut extreme amounts of the pentagon, a position neo-cons are opposed to. You would have to eliminate or severely cut Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Unemployment, Highways, Stimulus, NASA, Education, ect. In essence we become a third world country. The middle class will all but disappear and jobs will disappear. Conservatives want to take our country back and they have for the last century. But how far back will we go.
I am sorry but we cannot abandon the middle class and poorer classes. Furthermore some Conservatives seem to be uneasy about race relations while minorities have a very disproportionate unemployment rate. According to the July labor statistics African American unemployment rate was around 15.6% Hispanics was 12.1%. They grew up in a separation with minorities and see minorities as taking what is rightfully theirs. This is flat out racist even if it is not mainstream standard of racism. Stocking the fear is right wing blogs and fox, but that’s a different story.
The right message for the deficit is to raise taxes on those who we can and decrease certain spending. After all do we really want the top 5% running the nation for themselves or will 95% of America rise and say no more. Decrease debt responsibly is my platform what is yours. Think about this America.