Federal Budget Mess Not Brought About By Lack Of Taxes
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
With the tizzy over the federal government’s problems of reaching the limit for how deeply in debt our elected officials are permitted to spend us – the solution isn’t going to be found in allowing the debt to grow worse and thinking that we will be better off being taxed at higher levels. The simple concept of cutting spending, capping spending levels and reforming tax policy should be the approach that federal lawmakers take.
No, I don’t believe that it will be that simple and that they will actually do what’s necessary – I said that is what they should do.
The editorial I read in today’s (Sunday, July 10, 2011) Reno Gazette Journal caught my attention, with further thoughts on the problem that they suggest is our problem – a broken budget system. I don’t think it’s the process that’s not working…it’s been the people operating the process. We are not in the mess we’re in because taxes haven’t been high enough… Picking targets to tax and blaming the other party for not joining in going along with higher confiscation of their resources is also not going to correct the fundamental problem of too much spending.
The issue in passing budgets and resolving the federal deficit is the same…Democrats believe that tax increases are the way to get at the issue of spending more than the federal government takes away from the private sector. While there is this invented crisis worry over the federal government smacking up against the limits of how deeply the government can go into debt – the bigger worry should be about what happens if the Republicans cave in and let the debt limit go to greater levels, without getting the concessions necessary to cut significantly the over spending that is taking place.
As long as we keep electing “leaders” who represent us as they have been and can’t vote for responsible and reduced government – we’re going to keep getting what we’ve got. Fixing the problem is only going to be accomplished by forcing accountability on those who keep spending us deeper into the hole that they’ve already got us into.
With the tizzy over the federal government’s problems of reaching the limit for how deeply in debt our elected officials are permitted to spend us – the solution isn’t going to be found in allowing the debt to grow worse and thinking that we will be better off being taxed at higher levels. The simple concept of cutting spending, capping spending levels and reforming tax policy should be the approach that federal lawmakers take.
No, I don’t believe that it will be that simple and that they will actually do what’s necessary – I said that is what they should do.
The editorial I read in today’s (Sunday, July 10, 2011) Reno Gazette Journal caught my attention, with further thoughts on the problem that they suggest is our problem – a broken budget system. I don’t think it’s the process that’s not working…it’s been the people operating the process. We are not in the mess we’re in because taxes haven’t been high enough… Picking targets to tax and blaming the other party for not joining in going along with higher confiscation of their resources is also not going to correct the fundamental problem of too much spending.
The issue in passing budgets and resolving the federal deficit is the same…Democrats believe that tax increases are the way to get at the issue of spending more than the federal government takes away from the private sector. While there is this invented crisis worry over the federal government smacking up against the limits of how deeply the government can go into debt – the bigger worry should be about what happens if the Republicans cave in and let the debt limit go to greater levels, without getting the concessions necessary to cut significantly the over spending that is taking place.
As long as we keep electing “leaders” who represent us as they have been and can’t vote for responsible and reduced government – we’re going to keep getting what we’ve got. Fixing the problem is only going to be accomplished by forcing accountability on those who keep spending us deeper into the hole that they’ve already got us into.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 7/10/2011 3:55 PM 
Categories: Congress
Tags: Government Tax and Spend Congress Federal Budget Federal Deficit
Categories: Congress
Tags: Government Tax and Spend Congress Federal Budget Federal Deficit
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