Posted by Savanna on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 10:42pm.
To move from a deficit to a balanced budget, lawmakers must raise revenues and/or lower spending. Period.
Not only do taxes raise revenue, governments also collect money from fines, penalties, and user fees. (Although, by comparison, these are tiny). And governments spend on a whole lot of other things besides fighting terrorism. E.g., National Parks, farm subsidies, roads, medical care, tax administration, aid to the needy, etc.
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