[quote=CA renter]…nobody wants to cut from their own fat.[/quote]
CAR, I respectfully disagree. I know of at least one person (myself) who would accept to be the recipient of less benefits from the government, for the greater good.
Incidentally, I would accept modest, justified tax increases, too.
What makes me willing to do this is the fact that I believe wholeheartedly all the rhetoric about “mortgaging our children’s future” with all the huge deficits and unfunded future liabilities (of public pensions, medicare, etc.)
I would hope that more considerate discussion of the cost/benefits of government (and less digression to hyped up political talking points) might convince others to accept these realities (or “sarcrifices”, or “responsibilities”, or whatever you want to call them), too.
