The main place that I am "coming from" is the gathering and analysis of budget and economic data from credible sources. When I became interested in this over a decade ago, I was amazed at how much bad data was being cited in public political discussion. If you look through my web site at http://home.att.net/~rdavis2/budget.html, you'll see that the great majority of it consists of data. The commentary is minimal.
Secondly, I'm interested in fiscal responsibility and consider myself a fiscal conservative. As such, I agree with much of what the Concord Coalition promotes and have a great respect for their chairman, Pete Peterson. However, my interest began before the Concord Coalition came into existence.
Thirdly, I have some interest in the supply-side topic, at least in the extreme view that the Reagan and Bush tax cuts have paid for themselves. I find this interesting because I am yet to find a single budget document or credible economic study that even proposes this to be the case.
However, I am NOT in favor of high taxation. As you can see from the following graph, the top marginal rate is far below the level it was at from 1940 to 1980:
The actual numbers and sources are at http://home.att.net/~rdavis2/recsrc.html I do not support a rise to anywhere near that level. However, I do think we may need to push some of the taxes back to their pre-Bush levels to deal with the deficits and coming Boomer retirement. In any event, I think that we need to reinstate PAY-GO to instill some minimal amount of discipline into the budget process.