OK, so the problem is that we are either spending too much money or we are not collecting enough taxes. now given that this is the government we are talking about clearly it cannot possibly be spending enough money, so the only other option is to collect more taxes. but as things are now, we are already sending a huge chunk of money off and not getting much back for it, but then i realized something, something that changed my perspective on the situation immediately, all we have to do is find a segment of the population that can afford to pay the additional taxes with out it affecting them, and there is one such group, no it's not the rich, it's the religions, you see all religious organizations are tax exempt, but, all (or most at least) claim to be th earthly representatives of some sort of all powerful all knowing super being that wants them to succeed. now if that is the case, then this entity would not allow it's representatives to fail, no matter what the situation this thing would ensure that they had the means to overcome any and all hardships. so that means we have been doing this **** totally wrong! rather than making them tax exempt we should be taxing the **** out of religions, make em pay 2, 3, 10 times as much as everyone else, no matter how much they get taxed their god(s) will make sure they can pay it and have enough left over to build that new mega-church or theme park. we could fund health care, feed an infinitely exponentially growing population, build orbital elevators, teraform Mars and spread throughout the cosmos and never have to worry about funding a gain, just leave it up to that god. as an added bonus we will finally be able to figure out which religion was the correct one, as all of the false religions will not have an actual god looking out for them and will utterly collapse, fortunately that will only happen to the ones that are based on complete bull****.
