Re: So cutting government jobs is going to shrink the tax base?
Wow. Can you read? The tax base point was only one element I mentioned, but you latch onto it like it was the only point I made. I mentioned other factors that your simple arithmetic doesn't account for and you stick to your original claim out of what, being "stuck on stupid"?
But my main point was that NOW is not the time to cut government when consumers are not spending, corporate America has trillions sitting on the sidelines not being invested in the economy, and banks have even more they are not loaning.
Yeah there's never an easy time to cut government spending, but the time to do it is when the economy is booming, not busting.