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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Sam who wrote (69414)5/2/2018 1:05:35 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 353995
 
There is a choice about the latter.

There is choice about all spending except maybe interest on the debt (technically there is a choice there but its one that's obviously good and one that's obviously idiotic).

As for the problem we most certainly do have a spending problem. Taxes go back and forth, with even the lows being too high to be ideal (but not something that could reasonably be cut beyond that without tackling the spending problem), spending keeps going up. Not just in nominal or even real terms (which wouldn't be a problem) but in real per capita terms, and most importantly as a percentage of GDP (the last has cycles just like taxes, but over time you get higher highs and higher lows, with spending now being much higher than in the past, and spending in the future nearly certainly continuing to set new records).
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