Across the Board Cuts Cowardly

Across the board budget cuts as solution to the budget deficit shows a profound lack of imagination, if nothing else.

An across the board cut assumes across the board wiggle room;
all agencies have the same amount of "fat" to cut.

In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable
to assume, that is not the case at all. It would fly in the face of
everything we know about human nature.

The priorities that govern spending are a vertical stack.
At the top, the most important thing that government must
accomplish, and at the bottom; the least important thing that government does.

At the bottom; something truly embarrassing.
Something they must hide.

What do you suppose the most outrageous and unjustifiable
use of tax dollars looks like?

Why do you suppose they will not survey state workers
and ask them to point to it?

They are afraid to shine the light of day on their spending.
They are afraid to point to the least important thing they
are doing; the most unjustifiable spending of our resources,
because they don't want to be held accountable for their
poor stewardship of our trust and treasure.

Why are the people not be being asked
what they want to fund or not, with their tax dollars?

What we don't know won't hurt them.