No act of federal spending restraint will ever shrink the federal government. That’s because spending cuts ignore what’s enabling the relentless growth of federal government: humongous federal tax revenues in the present, and federal tax revenues in the future that will make the present appear impoverished by comparison. All of this is in The Deficit Delusion. Barring a read, just dust off Robert Caro’s masterwork, The Power Broker.
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