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"Well, if you've got a kid that's extravagant, you can lecture him all you want to about his extravagance," Reagan said in his 1980 campaign. "Or you can cut his allowance and achieve the same end much quicker."
No one turned the starving-beast theory into baloney faster than Reagan, who followed his tax cuts with a spending binge fueled by massive borrowing. What he did, in effect, was cut the extravagant kid's allowance and then hand him 10 credit cards.
The national debt doubled under Reagan. It doubled again under George W. Bush, who followed the same reckless path. (At least Reagan subsequently raised taxes in the face of soaring deficits.)
Frustrated fiscal conservatives -- a group that includes Democrats, Republicans and, above all, independents -- are assessing another tool for imposing budgetary discipline: the "Fiscal Illusion" effect. Totally contrary to starve-the-beast, it promotes raising taxes as the better way to contain government.
All this "compromise" will do, is spark the creation of hundreds of new "Agencies" for preservations of lint from indigent laundry or etc.. They will do nothing, but one will be eliminated for each increase in taxes... and they will have served their purpose.
The Reagan "spending binge" is a big distortion of what actually transpired. Reagan's tax cuts were a compromise with Democrats....tax cuts coupled with an agreement to cut spending. Something to the tune of $3 in cuts for every $1 taxes. Instead, we had tax cuts and mega-spending. Democrats never held up their end of the bargain. I don't have the time to look it up, but it's true.
I really dislike liberal distortions and revisionist history.
The Reagan "spending binge" is a big distortion of what actually transpired. Reagan's tax cuts were a compromise with Democrats....tax cuts coupled with an agreement to cut spending. Something to the tune of $3 in cuts for every $1 taxes. Instead, we had tax cuts and mega-spending. Democrats never held up their end of the bargain. I don't have the time to look it up, but it's true.
I really dislike liberal distortions and revisionist history.
No democrat would EVER admit to not holding up their end of ANY bargain.
Cut ten federal agencies for every 1/10th point the interest payments on our National Debt increase. Cut 100 federal agencies for every $1 Billion in debt ceiling raises.
Ron Paul 2012 because this man actually has a plan to cut $1 Trillion in real spending (not future spending) in his 1st year as POTUS.
...and who would manage the purchasing and government buildings that they manage now?
Therein lies the stupidity in eliminating a federal agency. They're there for a reason to start with.
I think you need to grow a set and look at this logically. You need to understand cause and effect to know why it's a good idea to close a Federal agency.
...and who would manage the purchasing and government buildings that they manage now?
Therein lies the stupidity in eliminating a federal agency. They're there for a reason to start with.
Most federal agencies are completely useless and exist only to spawn public union employees to suck union dues from (which, in turn, are donated to the Democratic National Committee).
Funny how America went from zero to world power in the 19th century and early 20th century without the need for hundreds of "do nothing" federal bureaucracies.
I'd simply settle for every tax increase, there is an equal decrease in spending. That doesn't mean we have to "end" an agency, or something like that, just cuts.
Its going to take significant cuts, and significant revenue increases.
This isn't complex geometry, is simple addition and subtraction.
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