The automatic cuts resulting from the super committee’s failure are preferable to any deal they could have come up with that would have included tax increases.
Exactly!
BTW, the Department of Defense alone has over 700,000 civilian employees. There is a lot of fiscal fat that can be cut without touching military personnel, military pay or military operations.
Morever, sequestration only reduces the AMOUNT of spending GROWTH next year. Budgets will still, of course, go up.