Unless he seriously, significantly, and meaningfully cuts spending, the beast will live on. It will only be funded by a flat tax or someother mechanism.
The flat tax, or VAT, or whatever, is another invisible - because it is so incremental - means of taxation. If you want to see people get outraged, eliminate the payroll deduction and have people write weekly checks for their tax payments.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
You cannot have a fiscally conservative tax policy and liberal social spending policies and balance the budget. Can't happen.
Right you are.