Idiocracy was a comedic movie not an extended, theatrical white paper to inform long term policy.
You will actually have to do something about revenue. I know that everyone tells you, over and over, ad nauseum that you are special, unique, and capable of anything. You aren't. You aren't magically better at growing money tree's than over two centuries of your predecessors. You aren't better than your colleagues were five years ago when they raised the debt limit over a dozen times. There's nothing to sacrifice that you won't be boiled alive for in your home district.
But it was never really about ideology here, was it? You saw your predecessors, scandal stained and tarred with troubled ethics, land plum six figure jobs as lobbyists. You only have to sweat out a term or two and BAM, the gravy train arrives.
**Whew, glad to get that rant off my chest.