The bottom line is that the spending machine frames the issue to ensure more spending and more taxes. It is inconceivable to think that without ripping apart that machinery you would somehow get different product out of that same machine. It has to be. I know Oklahoma state government spending has increased 763 percent in my lifetime. I'm looking at some historical tables here.
State legislatures have to use the same dynamics to increase spending as the federal government.
City legislators have got to cut deals with rural legislators to get things passed, and they've done this. You have to have arrangements to ensure political coalitions have been created that make it easier to get together and roll those logs down the hill. Whether we're talking about the US Congress or the Oklahoma Legislature, what we need then is an appropriations process that doesn't frame the vote on whether money needs to be spent on a need, but instead whether families or government should do the spending. The American people have already spoken as to what they want. They want less taxes, they want less government, they want us out of their lives.