re: #328 lawhawk

But you need to ask the question, for every piece of spending, if that spending was needed. In some cases, an increase in spending is going to save you money. Just as failure to properly deal with the debt is kicking the can down the road, slashing spending is very often simply delaying problems. Slash spending on school maintenance, save money in the short term, but four, five years, you’ll have to spend more money than you did in the first place.

There is no benefit to be had from simplistically analyzing spending levels. Or simplistically analyzing tax levels.