Following up on the theme from yesterday's post on Matt Miller's column, Charles R. Morris authors an op-ed piece in Politico about how the US tax burden is really a red herring and the real issue isn't the quantity of taxes collected but the quality of the government spending them. He also calls out the people that think everything can be saved by cutting spending without raising a penny in taxes:
"But even a casual look at the country’s needs suggests that increased revenues have to be part of the solution. Cutting-edge U.S. research, mostly funded by the government, created the Internet and much of the scientific matrix supporting the semiconductor and biotech industries. But now research funds are under severe budget pressures. Roads, bridges and airports are in disgraceful condition after decades of scrimping on maintenance.
If we magically eliminated all waste in health care, the expanding technologies of “standard care” would still have far outrun middle-class paychecks. We have a terrible record in perinatal care, thereby incurring immense longer-term social and medical costs. Only in America do middle-class kids finish college with mountains of debt. And sad to say, it seems that economic mobility in America is now lower than in most European countries."
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