Tax reform is tricky because it is mostly based on a guess on how businesses and consumers will react to new or lower tax rates.  The rising dividends and gains from the stock market will also affect the amount of tax revenue we will pay, so the deficit might not be as wide as predicted.

We have already saved a lot of money, but unfortunately had to spend an extra hundred billion restoring the military after years of neglect -- not to mention the major hurricanes that hit the US and Puerto Rico.