[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Any more tax cuts and we’ll recover ourselves into default.

Bet your bottom dollar there will be no spending cuts. Just tax cuts.

[arrogantsob]

Keep this turkey off balance and make him and his idiot minions oppose reducing taxes and regulations. Whack him agin.

[Lancey Howard]

Tax cuts are one thing (good), but “tax reform” is something else altogether (political suicide). The best course of action for the GOP House is to push for tax cuts and regulatory reforms and leave the more comprehensive issue of “tax reform” for the first order of business after the 2012 elections.

[newzjunkey]

One of the reforms that's supposed to come up is a move from baseline budgeting to zero-based budgeting.

During the debt ceiling negotiations, Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-1) got a promise from Paul Ryan it'll be in the budget committee and a promise from Boehner to take a House vote.

Much of the growth and issues with "cuts" is they're only cuts to the automatic increases under baseline budgeting, set somewhere between 7 & 8% now. There's never an actual drop in spending.

Zero-based budgeting means every dollar demanded in an annual budget request must be justified instead of just arguing over how big the increase will be over the prior year.

We've had baseline budgeting since the Budget Act of 1974.