“Nevertheless, my point still stands - anyone who doesn’t want to touch 18.74% of the budget, especially when much of that amounts to spending on wars we shouldn’t even be in and on bases in places we don’t need to be anymore, simply is not serious about balancing the budget or reducing spending.”
Sure, after all the unconstitutional spending is taken out.
Sure, after all the unconstitutional spending is taken out.
No - at the same time as the rest is cut out. Again, you can't say that we're not going to touch 19% of the budget and the largest or second-largest portion (depending, apparently, on how things are accounted by whichever source you're using) and still claim to be serious about fiscal responsibility.
Besides, if we want to be serious about constitutionality, how about we start getting back to the constitutional principle that Congress could only allocate funds for armies (land forces) for specified periods of time and for specific reasons, instead of having a huge standing army consuming resources like crazy? Remember what the founders thought about large standing armies?
If conservatives want to be constitutionalists, then by all means, let's be consistent about it.