re: #210 TNChuckster

Next time, try just not tossing out an insult at all.

I’m not sure how else I can be clear. I’m advocating the reduction of spending through cutting costs as well as an increase in taxes on the upper income levels, and on capital gains. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will not last forever, and that represents a lot of the current debt.

The amount of spending we should have is equal to the amount we need to spend, on actual beneficial programs. That is the number that needs to be derived, and then the ways of raising that revenue. But there’s plenty in the budget to cut— I just don’t want it done willy-nilly, as the GOP approach would have us do, with no thought for what costs cutting that spending will incur down the road.