<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> .. though, of course, if government spending was entirely funded through progressive taxation, there'd still be this focus on cuts, for obvious reasons. It's just that the wealth gap wouldn't be widening so quickly. </p><p>If all such programs get cut that the prospects for America's future prosperity are grim. Progress will not stop, but America's central role will slowly fade into memory. </p><p>"We have not been given any guarantee that Assyria and Egypt and Rome were not given"</p>
