Cutting spending is never irrelevant. The entire reason we are in the this situation is because the government spent money that they did not have. Hence the de

Cutting spending is never irrelevant. The entire reason we are in the this situation is because the government spent money that they did not have. Hence the deficit. If you think that cutting spending is irrelevant then how do you think raising taxes will help? Until the government stops spending and printing money, how can we ever trust them to do the right thing with more money from more taxes?