[Trust but Verify]

Are you for real? Tax cuts at ANY time are the right thing to do. This country is not in debt because we aren't paying enough in taxes. We are in debt because we spend too much money. Wartime and times of economic stagnation make deficits necessary. We happen to have seen both simultaneously.

[AM2000]

I'm glad you brought up that we're at war and that deficits are "necessary". Let me ask you this - given the shady nature of the adversary, when exactly does this war end? How does it end? Or is this now going to be a permanent fixture of the national political dialogue - that we're at war, so don't question our spending? Spending discipline is always a good thing, and I don't see enough of that from this supposedly Republican president. Assuming all the WOT expenses are justified (and I'm inclined to think it is) what about all the rest? Medicare, for example?