The crushing argument against tax increases, in my view, is that if we just hold the line on spending, we’ll balance the budget by 2021. Of course, I don’t think we’ve got that long to balance the budget, but it shows that our problem is not a matter of revenues, but of spending. We just spend too darn much.
Mountains of waste are piled in to our government – and, yes, there is waste in Defense (in fact, no former service member would ever assert that you can’t cut defense spending, or that high spending automatically means a stronger military) – so much waste, in fact, that we could probably cut a couple hundred billion out of next year’s budget without anyone other than bureaucrats and crony-capitalists noticing it. If we were to cut spending by $200 billion next year and then just freeze spending for two or three years after that, we’d balance the budget. It isn’t that hard – all it takes is a willingness to not spend; this, though, is not something Obama and the Democrats are capable of.
Most importantly, this is a fight we can win – the American people are on our side; they know that tax hikes are wrong and spending cuts are necessary. All we have to do is fight – and hope that a coalition of Democrats and RINOs don’t screw us.
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