You are correct. No agreement to bind a future congress to cutting is enforceable. But any tax increase continues until a future congress passes a bill through both houses, and the President signs. Similarly, debt incurred today will need to be paid in the future.
It is how it is scored by doing a 10 year scoring... if you pass a budget with certain cuts then you track that out over 10 years to see how it would work out... pretty straight forward so I’m not sure why you are so amped up about it... next year they can come in and make a new budget that wipes out this years... that is how it is.
“You are correct. No agreement to bind a future congress to cutting is enforceable. But any tax increase continues until a future congress passes a bill through both houses, and the President signs. Similarly, debt incurred today will need to be paid in the future.”
Outstanding post and most succintly put. Why can’t just one of our guys put it this way when some talking head on national TV gives them the opening?