The Times is wrong. While some additional revenue may be needed in light of the damage likely from Rita, intense efforts are needed for spending cuts from other programs, as Senator Frist is arguing today.
The 'Big government' Times should know better as they begin to extract costs from their operation through layoffs announced yesterday.
"Katrina cannot and should not be paid for by cutting government programs, unless the goal is to end up with a government that's even less effective than it was before Katrina. True, there's fat that Congress should trim. But even if members of Congress were willing to rescind the porkiest of the pork spending they approved in the highway bill passed last summer, doing that would raise about $24 billion"
No comments:
Post a Comment