>> Our problem is most assuredly both. Currently, though, spending is creating the much bigger challenge to long-term sustainability for our society than the tax structure is. >>
The long term sustainability has to do with deficits, of which spending is the main (but not only) culprit. The other culprit is a dying economy which is killing revenues.
I assume you agree that the problem with government spending is that we are running up huge deficits.
Now as a business owner, I would have thought that you would have intuitively known that the only way to reduce such a deficit is by both cutting spending and by increasing revenue. We’ll NEVER get their by cuts alone. We just can’t. The hole is too big.
As a conservative, the only way to increase revenue is to grow the economy. The main goal of 999 is to grow the economy. Thus it is a deficit attacking idea just as his “10% across the board plus deep dive” plan is a deficit attacking plan.
Thus I was not projecting, but merely extrapolating that your reasoning and emphasis was not the standard reasoning and emphasis of a small business owner.
” As a conservative, the only way to increase revenue is to grow the economy. The main goal of 999 is to grow the economy. Thus it is a deficit attacking idea just as his “10% across the board plus deep dive” plan is a deficit attacking plan.”
Correct on both counts.