If nothing else, Washington's tortured, year-long budget debate shows that cutting federal spending may be even more difficult today than it used to be. . . . Not that it's ever been easy. For at least the last quarter-century, the federal deficit has been a perennial problem of US politics. As defense and entitlement spending has grown, most everything else that the US government does has been squeezed and squeezed again in search of savings. (Christian Science Monitor, Tuesday)
They cut less than one half of one percent of $13 trillion (over five years)… how hard were they looking?
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The Costs of Tax and Spend by John D. McGinnis