Money

[James Baird]

> > >  The average man on
> > the street now (and I imagine then) is always
> > complaining about the gummint wasting his tax
> dollars
> > (even if he doesn't pay much in the way of taxes)
> on
> > durnfool schemes.
> 
> This simply isn't true. It is so obviously false,
> that the burden to
> prove conclusively that it makes any sense lies on 
> those who make this
> ridiculous claim. All serious surveys show that the
> overwhelming
> proportion of the population would support more
> government services.
> 

Just because people support more governement programs
does not mean that they don't think that the
government is wasting their money on stuff it is spent
on currently.  Or are you in favor of a few more B-2
bombers?

My point (which I can see now I didn't make too well -
I guess I have a tendency to do that...)  was that,
whether people think spending should increase,
decrease, or stay the same, most people are in the
grip of fiscal orthodoxy that says deficits are bad. 
The idea that they are not only not bad, but
nessessary, seems contrary to common sense.  For most
people it's like being told that the only way they'll
loos wieght is eat more and stop exerciseing.

Jim Baird

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