DiamondDave
Army Vet
i think public finances do have to be increased on the receipt-end for a solution to be credible, ddave. rather than claiming that anything which doesn't line right up with your world-view is a conspiracy, it could help that you recognize the impact that making more has relative to spending less. the latter simply does not cut it often times, and a challenge for lawmakers is created whereby they need to figure out how they are going to deal with the need to increase revenues without extinguishing economic activity.
even though i agree that the choices available are limited, perhaps to proposals which are actually on the table, i think this is a good exercise for people like yourself who feel that balancing a budget is as simple as you put forward rhetorically. the OP challenges rhetorical conservatives to make the tough decisions which lawmakers are likely to have to, but most merely bitch.
I did not claim conspiracy... I only contend that the government has, and has been allowed to, expand beyond the scope of it's intended power.. and that over-spending has led us to the financial situation we are in, and cutting spending is the only way out.... We MAY have to increase taxation (ahem... start taxing the ~50% that pay no income taxes now) in order to start paying back some of this debt... but that should not only fall on the shoulders of those who extreme progressive deem 'the evil rich'
Balancing the budget will not come easily, just as placing debt repayment into the budget will not be.... but reeling back the tendrils of government has got to be the major focus, as it is the major problem
Whether some current or even potential politicians make it difficult or not is of no consequence... people who do not believe that government exists to create a nanny state need to strive towards governmental change that will facilitate the needed cutback of government spending