should we pay more taxes?

this is taken out of context, but w/e. i don't feel like rewriting it

I'm actually learning about GDP right now, and how it works is that Government spending is added in with consumer spending. so it doesn't really matter which part of the gdp gets the money. and if the government is spending more money than it has, wouldn't it make sense to stop giving the government money?

for example. a kid who knows nothing decides to spend tons of money on his new credit card. then the bill comes and he shits his pants, cries, and eventually tells his parents. now imagine yourself as the parent, do you give the kid the money to pay it back or do something to fix the problem? yes. do you give the kid more money to **** around with so he can do it again? no.

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Not only is your populist view intellectually lazy, it ignores the fact that most Government agencies are drastically underfunded.  EPA's Superfund, which is tasked with cleaning up the most polluted sites in out nation, is so poor that they often resort to plastic "DO NOT CROSS" police tape and let sites sit around for decades.

The elephant in the room in the military, which receives a whopping 67% of discretionary spending.  It's like welfare for conservitards.  If we leave taxes alone and just cut the military just 20%, we're operating at a surplus.