re: #88 Baier

I wrote what I meant. Increasing spending without cutting spending is dangerous.

Oh, okay. I don’t entirely agree; there are many cases where if you don’t spend now, you will wind up spending later. If you can spend $50,000 to put in place a system that will decrease farm erosion, you can avoid spending millions in environmental damage, lost jobs, and food support down the road. A lot of the time, an expenditure makes sense even if you have to spend into the deficit to do it.

That does not mean the majority of our spending is of that nature, but I do think it’s very important that people not overlook that the choice is often between different amounts of spending at different times, not spending or no spending.