Why is it there are those who presume that living within ones means is impossible and will destroy them?
Who is saying that? It's a question of how you define one's means.
By omission most polticians. Living within your 'means', means spending equal to or less than you take in. This isn't subjective bud. www.usdebtclock.org Admittedly going into debt or financing somethig is not neccessarily not living within your means, but when what you owe continues to grow as the national debt is, government is clearly not living within it's means. This is not about philosophical disagreements on what governments spends money on. Even if 100% of us agreed that everything the goverment is currently spending money on are things they should be spending on, the fact would STILL remain that government isn't living within its means.
One of two things has to change for the government to objectively live within it's means, it's 'living' and/or its 'means'; 1) the 'living', that is government can drastically cut back on what it spends such that it spends money equal to or less than what it takes in in receipts or is somehow able to finance things such that it starts paying down the debt (which would still require major cuts), or 2) the 'means', government raises taxes such that it collects in tax revenue what it spends AND pay down the debt. Right now we aren't doing either.
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