> After 50+ years of budget cuts, what makes us think that the solution is more budget cuts? What 50+ years of budget cuts? US federal expenditure per capita h

> After 50+ years of budget cuts, what makes us think that the solution is more budget cuts? What 50+ years of budget cuts? US federal expenditure per capita has been steadily rising for decades, with a gargantuan explosion during Covid and steeply climbing thereafter.