Simple solution:

Raise taxes.

In fact, if you always end up raising taxes, why not just save the next thousand years of a quarter percent per decade and just bump it up to 90% tax rate - heck just Go For Broke and make it an even 100% tax rate already.

C'mon, I NEVER hear dems cutting govt intake but then they're always too shy to just say out loud to 100% tax. Instead they kill us with a thousand nicks. Just man up and slit our throats already and be humane and decisive about it already!