Avoiding the issue

Is the budget too big?

There’s a lot of talk about cutting government spending but there’s no talk of why. There is no argument made other than the belief that government is too big and we should spend less. That is ideology not explanation.

How do we know if we’re spending too much money? I’m not talking about the deficit. A deficit can be eliminated easily by raising taxes. The question is about how much is being spent.

Are we spending too much?

I’m also not talking about waste. That’s a matter of where and how the money is spent. If there is waste fix the problems, but waste in one area does not mean that we are not spending too much. We might be spending too little elsewhere and we should shift the spending there.

Are we spending too much?

Maybe $2 trillion isn’t enough to run our government the way it should be run. It’s a lot of money to me, but maybe to run this country the way it should be our budget needs to be $6.5 trillion. No one is talking about how much is enough to maintain the standards that we expect of this country. How much is enough to serve the citizens the way we should be? No one is explaining anything, they just say what they want to spend, not why it is what should be spent.

So, are we spending too much, or not enough?