[Theoria]

'Lower rates nearly doubled receipts, spending caused the deficit to grow. '

Ya think you can grow faster than the .gov monster? Good luck with that. Cuts first. Then taxes.

[central_va]

You are ignorant of the facts. Google federal tax receipts since 1960. There are many charts and graphs. Note the periods of huge federal revenue increase. Educate yourelf or shut up.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

'Lower rates nearly doubled receipts, spending caused the deficit to grow. ‘

Ya think you can grow faster than the .gov monster? Good luck with that. Cuts first. Then taxes.

I refer you to my #19. The only way to limit spending is by constitutional amendment which puts Congress-biting teeth into a spending limit. And that, IMHO, implies a term limit trigger if the budget is exceeded.

Each year's spending limit should be the previous year’s revenues. Each year's spending limit must not be an extrapolation which predicts revenue based on the assumption that tax revenues are proportional to tax rates. That naive assumption led to Jack Kemp correctly labeling Bob Dole “the tax collector for the welfare state.”