Originally Posted by Air&Road

That's not what you originally said. YOU said that ANYTHING that would decrease the deficit is BAD. My contention is that a booming economy, resulting in more tax revenue would decrease the deficit, and I can't understand how that is BAD.

The deficit and economy are not REALLY on different timelines. If we had elected officials that were worth as much as a bucket of warm chit, they would NOT spend more than they take in. THAT is why we have a deficit, because they spend MORE of OUR money than they take in. When they get in trouble then they want to demand MORE of our money rather than having us take our lumps to fix it.