My colleagues Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden have put together a useful interactive tool that lets you try your own hand at cutting $100 billion out of the domestic discretionary budget. It’s, um, hard! Especially if you take the view that the country shouldn’t eat its seed corn by slashing research and infrastructure spending, you basically have no choice but to hammer the poor and pare back all kinds of regulatory agencies and just kind of hope that doesn’t make it too easy for people to get away with malfeasance.
Of course I suspect that to many conservatives making it easier to get away with malfeasance is feature and not a bug.
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