If all you're saying is that tax increases will be less than they might be, if we repurpose money currently spent on other programs, I certainly agree. The rep

If all you're saying is that tax increases will be less than they might be, if we repurpose money currently spent on other programs, I certainly agree. The repurposed money is still presumably funded through taxation, though, so this doesn't conflict at all with what I'd said. If you were saying more, then I'm still not clear on what it is.