Our federal government is too big and spends too much money. As a lifetime fiscal conservative, I want to raise our federal taxes and give it even more money. I want our government to take more money because the alternative, future federal bankruptcy, would be much worse. In fiscal year 2022 the feds took $4.9 trillion in revenue and spent $6.3 trillion, a deficit of $1.4 trillion, added to our national debt. My Oct. 22, 2022, column, “Cut federal spending,” described draconian cuts, including eliminating entire cabinet departments, but such major spending cuts would only reduce our deficit by one-third....