True. However, Argentina seems to be going in the right direction. I’m not sure if we are ( see recent big so-called beautiful bill, which doesn’t control unnecessary spending ).
I was all excited about the “no tax on tips” bill until I saw the details. To me, “no tax on tips” means you don’t have to claim tips at all. i.e. it puts them outside the government’s swim lane. But nope. Overly complicated as usual.
My change: I’ll never tip on my credit card again. It’s all cash tips from here on out.
Not expanding spending is enough for the first FY. The thing about military spending, it is limited by the amount of places to build the really expensive items.
What I have noticed is the cost of things that government wants should be going down with automation, with robotic production, with web interfaces to users of services, with less employees per work until but somehow the last 10 years the budget has doubled, and 70% of that is inside the beltway with middle management.