(08-01-2018, 11:02 PM)lastonealive Wrote:

(08-01-2018, 06:45 PM)pirkster Wrote: Tax cuts don't "add" to a deficit.  Spending is the driver of deficits.

You can't have what you can't afford.

If you want to confiscate more revenue, you don't raise tax rates.  You add payroll by creating jobs.  If you aren't working/contributing, you're leeching and a burden.

We must always remember that earnings are just that - they belong to the individual who earned them (not the government.)  Taxes are a legal form of transferring rightful earnings from the earner to those who did not earn them.

It's glaringly clear that our current and projected spending is simply unsustainable.  Federal government spending is the only "unsustainable" item that should ever be uttered by anyone until it's fixed.

Many ways to reduce costs and build revenue. Not sure cutting back the welfare state and infrastructure is the answer. Reducing revenue prior to cutting expense definitely isn't any kind of answer.

Infact abolishing the states and just having a federal government and local government areas would probably be the most efficient cut in expense. No real reason for so many layers of government in a world of the internet.