Is this the first strike at seriously rolling back government spending? I doubt it. Conservatives consider Bush a big government Republican. I don't think these proposed cuts will change that fact either. Legitimate tax reform would be a big step in removing hard cash from the fiscally irresponsible politicos who don't care about advancing a true conservatism agenda.
Excluding Social Security, homeland defense, defense, interest payments, and medicare, all other spending growth was held to 0.5% and that is less than inflation.
"...Legitimate tax reform would be a big step in removing hard cash from the fiscally irresponsible politicos who don't care about advancing a true conservatism agenda...."
The FairTax Act, HR 25 and S 25, would make the full cost of government visible to all...that would stop the drunken sailors in their tracks.