re: #166 cliffster

Yes, your 100% abstract stipulation contains no logical fallacies. It doesn’t address who is paying it, who is deciding what X is or that it will be 10X in the future, etc etc. But yes there are no contradictions in what you said.

Of course those are all parts that have to be figured out. You cannot, however, assume that all spending will bite us in the ass, because there are also lots and lots of times where lack of spending will bite us in the ass, as well.

The answer is not more or less spending. It is how we are spending, what we are spending on, and how effectively we are spending. To me, it makes a lot more sense to focus on individual cases of spending that is either unnecessary or for something that’s doing it wrong, than to talk in general about raising or lowering spending, when talking about what government spending should be long-term.