[CaptainHaplo]

#1 Balanced budget ammendment (with the exception being a declared war by congress)

#2 Cut off all entitlement funding (welfare, education, housing assistance, etc) to any non-citizen or non-legal resident.

#3 Move to a consumption tax

#4 Get the federal government back to within its constitutionally defined role.

#5 Return to the gold standard

Do that, and we would have a surplus that would pay down our debt and have us on solid footing. It won't happen, too much special interest to ever let it be.