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Originally Posted by Rathji
Exactly.
People should be paying for stuff they use. I am sick of the culture that makes people feel entitled to get government services without paying for them.
I have no problems with cutting funding, if it makes sense, and isn't some knee jerk reaction to having a deficit. Find waste and kill it. Make things more efficient, absolutely.
Don't think that you can just cut programs based solely on the fact that we have X billion more in deficit to make up, though, because that just passes those costs onto future generations.
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Actually, accumulation of debt is what passes on costs to future generations. Living within your means at least guarantees that our children will be able to choose what to spend their money on instead of servicing poor spending decisions of the past.