And if the federal government should run deficits, the answer is to cut spending not raise taxes. Under this proposal, tax relief would be structured with a mechanism that would allow cuts only if surplus government revenue reached certain targets each year. Tax cut triggers would not restrain government spending. Triggers would allow specific interests in Congress to spend the American people out of tax relief. Triggers keep money on the table in Washington.
Triggers stop taxpayers from keeping what they earned.
Triggers are a license to spend. The true trigger should be the level of taxation the American people agree is appropriate. Once the American people determine that acceptable level of taxation, then Congress should be bound to live under that limit. Shrinks the Marriage Penalty. Buries the Death Tax.