Doing What’s Being Done Isn’t Working – So Why Keep Doing More Of The Same?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
This news flash that the U.S. Senate is working to put together another job’s bill left me shaking my head over the way in which we’re going to change things for the better even though what’s being done keeps making things worse… I suppose it comes down to those with the votes not being willing to accept the concept that government can’t spend us into anything more than an extremely large hole.
On the state level, the situation is basically the same (except not having the ability to spend money that isn’t actually there). Again, as Geoffrey Lawrence points out here, the way we got into this mess is legislators voting to increase spending in good times as well as bad. The more money they had to spend…the more they spent. When they didn’t have the dollars to increase spending…they increased taxes and kept right on spending. Now there is a $900 Million hole that needs to be dealt with and there’s not any easy places to rob as was done the last couple of times when lawmakers needed some extra spending money.
Are cuts going to be easy or pleasant – NO, They are not. It is going to hurt and might keep hurting for a while.
Should tax increases be considered to fill the holes? NO! Those who keep spending don’t deserve the trust that they won’t spend whatever they get and then some…
We can’t keep giving the same people the opportunity to keep doing what they have been doing and expect a different outcome – Those who have been taxing and spending us into the situation we’re in need to be shown the door and those will a game plan for reduced government and increased emphasis on fiscal responsibility need to be brought in to clean up the mess.
This news flash that the U.S. Senate is working to put together another job’s bill left me shaking my head over the way in which we’re going to change things for the better even though what’s being done keeps making things worse… I suppose it comes down to those with the votes not being willing to accept the concept that government can’t spend us into anything more than an extremely large hole.
On the state level, the situation is basically the same (except not having the ability to spend money that isn’t actually there). Again, as Geoffrey Lawrence points out here, the way we got into this mess is legislators voting to increase spending in good times as well as bad. The more money they had to spend…the more they spent. When they didn’t have the dollars to increase spending…they increased taxes and kept right on spending. Now there is a $900 Million hole that needs to be dealt with and there’s not any easy places to rob as was done the last couple of times when lawmakers needed some extra spending money.
Are cuts going to be easy or pleasant – NO, They are not. It is going to hurt and might keep hurting for a while.
Should tax increases be considered to fill the holes? NO! Those who keep spending don’t deserve the trust that they won’t spend whatever they get and then some…
We can’t keep giving the same people the opportunity to keep doing what they have been doing and expect a different outcome – Those who have been taxing and spending us into the situation we’re in need to be shown the door and those will a game plan for reduced government and increased emphasis on fiscal responsibility need to be brought in to clean up the mess.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 2/2/2010 5:10 PM 
Categories: Government
Tags: Nevada Federal Budget Taxes Economy Federal Spending
Categories: Government
Tags: Nevada Federal Budget Taxes Economy Federal Spending
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