[Johnstone]

Here's the game. Engage in massive overspending that leads to a solvency crisis. Then claim raising taxes is the essential solution to the overspending problem. Finally, accuse those who refuse to go along with this scheme of “feckless intransigence.”

This is an overspending problem, not an under-taxation problem.

[ncpatriot]

This is an overspending problem, not an under-taxation problem.

Why can't the politicians just state this to the people. Duh.