Non-conservatives look at tax cuts, and all they see is revenue being removed.
That is it. Removed. A zero-sum issue to them.
They refuse to recognize the mechanisms behind tax cuts that you described. They know about them but refuse to acknowledge them.
As for spending, it has to stop. And in my opinion, it should at the very least start with the smallest things. All these “little” things, $500K here, $2 million there, for idiotic things like grants to study the spotted lugwort sexual habits, the “Ad Council”, or...Obamaphones.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you are talking real money.
Here’s a place we can with.
The CFPB that Mulvaney was just made Acting Director of:
Modify the law that allows this board to take fines it levies against whomever, and specify they fines collected go to service the national debt. Not much money but as you say, a billion here, a billion there...
This also cuts FRAUD. It is FRAUD for anyone in the government to give away collected fine money to wherever they decide. I don’t think many people would disagree, even rank and file democrats and democrat voters.