The choice is so obvious . . . CUT the spending!!!!! We shouldn’t even have to debate this in the House. There really is no choice here; the government has to stop spending, period. Slashing all government programs by at least 10% would be a small step in the right direction. I think we can also do without the EPA, the Department of Education, etc. by giving the state and local governments more power to regulate themselves.
See my post #23. Cutting spending will mean cutting the entitlement programs to be meaningful. Our total tax revenue covers only the entitlement costs and debt servicing costs. The rest of the government is funded by borrowed money.