Thanks.
On first read I don’t know the real end point, but at least some courageous soul has taken a first step to sift the govt. pubs and put out a framework that helps understanding.
Drilling down into the detail will give more clarity to the % reductions.
up4later
Good stuff, but you haven’t gone far enough. The $12 billion “surplus” would need to be applied to paying down our debt. We can’t just keep paying the interest, we actually need to pay down $14 trillion in debt and $12 billion is a drop in a huge bucket. Even if we could find $500 billion a year to pay off the debt it would take us over a quarter of a century to pay off the debt. What are the chances of staying on the kind of budget that cuts spending far more drastically than what you’re showing for 28 years? It is inevitable that we are going to collapse under this debt, default on the debt, or have blood in the streets over the severe austerity required to come up with $500 billion per year. Decades of criminally insane spending has brought us here and it will be our children and grandchildren who will suffer the catastrophic consequences of it. This makes me so sick about the future of our country that I want to throw up.
Across the boards cuts sufficient to bring the budget into balance in a year or two would be hard, even disastrous, on many parts of our society and economy. But the total collapse of the house of cards that our budgeting process has become will be even worse.
An honest, good-faith, move toward ending the madness would result in a much stronger economy and therefore rising revenues.