Originally Posted by dippin

My problems with the current "tax protest" is how completely unrealistic it is.

My point is simple: it is absolutely impossible to cut taxes permanently, or even to keep them the way they are permanently, without cutting either military spending, medicare, or social security pensions.

It is a mathematical impossibility, unless people project much higher growth rates for the future than what we've had in the past 100 years.

Unfortunately, the people sponsoring these tea parties are completely in denial over this, for political expediency. They get outraged over pork spending, bailouts (never mind that the alternative also includes public funds) and so on, but ignore completely that even if we spent nothing on these things, current tax rates would still be insufficient.