[LWC]

So, now I am confused more. What I am hearing is the way to fix the economy is for the people paying taxes to pay no more in taxes than they already are.

If we cut spending, what would be cut, would be the real question. If we talking about trimming the fat, I am all for it. However, if we start cutting into the meat everyone is gonna bleed.

Cutting spending or higher taxes are the only way to get back in the black and out of the red. Nobody on this thread, I don't think, wants higher taxes. So what would be nice for economically ignorant people like me (I can balance budgets, etc... I am referring to political economy ignorance) is to see how much in excess the US is spending, and what could be cut or reduced.

When I hear talk of cutting spending I tend to always hear fights about that. It seems as if, and tell me if I am wrong, that the dems want to cut into the defense/military budget, and the reps want to cut into Social Security-like programs. I haven't heard any politician (that is taken seriously) talk about reducing salaries/bonuses/$300 dinners, etc... and we know those will never change, lol.