CATO: Please raise taxes

[muon2]

No . . . cut the pork.

Niskanen's argument is interesting. He says that you must cut pork, but the pressure to cut pork comes from voters feeling the pinch of taxes.  Some modest tax burden encourages greater responsibility for the programs funded by those taxes. If the tax burden were zero, there would be zero incentive to cut any programs - ie, because you are spending some else's money.