Base Line Budget Needs More “Press”

The fact that the way we as a nation appropriates money is as much a problem with the debt crises as the unwillingness of elected officials to cut spending. Automatic built-in increases to the budget is the reason why the left can make the claim that a simple freeze in the rate of growth in spending amounts to a budget cut. Huh? That almost defies physics.

In 2009, the the total budget was 3.7 trillion causing a 1.5 trillion dollar deficit. We haven’t had a static budget (without built in increases) using the appropriations process since the early 1970’s. Conservative candidates in 2016 need to hammer this point home as often as they can.

 

Pat Barrett

ConservativeTones.com

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