Is Congress going to CUT spending? Or just increase it more slowly than expected?

[Little-Acorn]

That's something that Congress actually calls a "cut".

If they expected to increase spending 15% over this year's, but then they wind up increasing it by "only" 12%, they actually call that a "cut".

Anybody know if that's what the Congresscritters are planning this time? Are we actually going to spend LESS than we did last year? Or are we going to spend "only" 12% more? (Or whatever the number comes out to)

[fj1200]

Increasing it more slowly SHOULD work, a la the 90's, but the latest spending has been accelerated so much that actual cuts would be preferred.

[Missileman]

That's something that Congress actually calls a "cut".

If they expected to increase spending 15% over this year's, but then they wind up increasing it by "only" 12%, they actually call that a "cut".

Anybody know if that's what the Congresscritters are planning this time? Are we actually going to spend LESS than we did last year? Or are we going to spend "only" 12% more? (Or whatever the number comes out to)

Bambam's idea of a cut is to freeze spending so that 10 years from now it will look like a cut. I'm doubtful they'll ever cut spending unless it's at gunpoint.