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Government Spending, Not Tax Cuts Drive America’s Debt Threat
“Washington’s dismal fiscal situation is driven by out-of-control government spending…”
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Blah blah blah…another guy yapping about cutting spending without citing concrete examples of things that will really make a difference with numbers to back them up. It’s easy to talk about cutting things but the things talked about are not substantial. If you leave entitlements alone (why is something like Social Security or Medicare which I have paid into all my life even called an “entitlement” anyway) the only thing left that makes a difference is Defense which is a bloated nightmare. In the age of drones do we really need another fighter jet? But we can’t touch that, not for security purposes, but because of the jobs that would be lost in the military-industrial complex. So back to square one.
Bloviate about waste, fraud, abuse, and reform all you want but back it up with something meaningful.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
This is the very definition of an elective philosophical point of view. Some have choice to focus on spending rather than revenue but math works the same whether you like it or not and a balance sheet has two sides. Ginn chooses to ignore the revenue side of the equation. Yes, extending tax cuts blows a hole in the debt. Why is reducing revenue any less impactful, dollar for dollar, than increasing spending? It’s because he has this Grover Norquist ideological commitment that government spending is inherently bad and that the only way out of this is to starve the beast. It’s fashionable to rail against government spending in the abstract but not to tell us exactly what you would cut. Don’t fall for this conservative propaganda.