Come again? I can maybe see savings for the regulated industries but government spending?
You might be able to cut a few bureaucrats but civilian federal payroll is an inconsequential part of a $4T budget.
If the constitutional limits on the size of government were enforced, the government would be something on the order of 1/20th the size it is.
And there would be a revolution and the U.S. would be no more. You can't believe that there would be support for a 95% reduction in government services, and without popular support the Constitution means nothing.
...if we can both agree that spending is the problem - whether funded by taxes or debt - then why do you care so much which it is?
One is sustainable, one isn't.
“One is sustainable, one isn’t.”
That’s simply not true. Neither method of funding the spending is sustainable when the spending itself is unsustainable - which it clearly is.