Jinx999 Wrote:It's easy for any one person to identify budget cuts. The problem is that all the spending is both:There's a simple test for that:
a) someone thinks it's a good idea.
b) Has a vested interest because they benefit.
Therefore every area of spending has two groups (who may not overlap that much) willing to defend it hard. And they're going to identify possible cuts in what you consider vital necessities. The problem is the politics.
Will you die if it isn't provided?
No? Then it isn't a vital necessity, is it?
(Note that I don't ask "Will you die immediately if it isn't provided?" - this allows an honest "yes" answer for such things as a police force, an ambulance service, a food bank, and a Coast Guard. And churches can cover the food banks.)
Honestly, the budget cuts have to be made and the tax rates have to increase - that's the only way to get out of the hole you're in (short of selling off government property or declaring bankruptcy).
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012