To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

?Everyone needs to share the pain

To fix our deficit problem everyone needs to share the pain; we all need to pay more in income taxes until we're on an even keel, retirement age needs to be moved back (and then tied to life expectancy, as we live longer our retirement age gets moved out accordingly), COLAs need to be scaled back, medicare and medicare costs need to cut, everyone should be required to pay some form of co-pay for benefits, and finally social security and medicare benefits need to be means tested (read: if you're rich your benefits will get cut).

When we've climbed out of the hole we're in then we can revisit tax rates and entitlements.

Why is this important?

Taxes, the deficit and entitlement reform.