Wiseacre
Retired USAF Chief
You can't cut the budget to balance without slashing Social Security checks and gutting defense. It's entirely unrealistic.
There's an article out from the Cato Institute that says we could balance the budget in 10 years if we restrained spending increases to 2.5% annually. Show me the liberal who will say anything about restraining spending. It's not unrealistic, except to liberals whose answer to everything is higher taxes and more spending.
Name me on republican president that didn't raise taxes since the Carter era.
George H. Bush? Bush43? Don't recall he raised taxes.
I remember Bush41 raised taxes on the democrat's promise that they would cut spending, cuz he thought it would be in the country's best interest. He did, they didn't, the dems lied their asses off to him like they did with Reagan.