EDITORIAL: Each cut counts - Washington Times: Federal spending continues to increase, despite Washington’s talk of “trillion-dollar cuts.” That’s because politicians refuse to kick their expensive habit. Perhaps the best way to change the culture of spending is to dismantle one piece of our $3.6 trillion federal budget at a time.
To be sure, Congress has put the largest share of that amount, $2 trillion in entitlements, off-limits. That shouldn’t be taken as an excuse to allow self-serving bureaucrats to continue blowing the rest on pointless projects just because the cost may only be measured in the thousands or millions. If Capitol Hill doesn’t have the guts to make cuts when the price tag is low, it’ll never be able to work up the courage to tackle the big ones.
To be sure, Congress has put the largest share of that amount, $2 trillion in entitlements, off-limits. That shouldn’t be taken as an excuse to allow self-serving bureaucrats to continue blowing the rest on pointless projects just because the cost may only be measured in the thousands or millions. If Capitol Hill doesn’t have the guts to make cuts when the price tag is low, it’ll never be able to work up the courage to tackle the big ones.
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