Thanks for your input. Because of your input I've added the following to my post about taxes:

Good government needs to spend money to operate and the House of Representatives is supposed to manage the budget. It doesn't do that properly because it was capped in 1929. (See my other post on that). Dealing with government costs have turned the merrygoround into a cyclone of spending, we need to get off and slow down but not close the circus down.