Do people on this board really work in financial services?
Tax revenues at all time high - really? Maybe YOUR taxes are at an all time high since you’re not a billionaire but tax revenues being higher than the past mean more people having more jobs. Spending being higher than ever driven by more people needing more services.
This country does have a spending problem in some areas but they also have a hard time separating spending to spend from spending to invest. Our infrastructure sucks our education system sucks, our healthcare system sucks. Why? Because we spend on things that are not investments, they are things. Oh, and because being a politician has become a get rich quick scheme for individuals who sell us out to corporate “interests”.