Cutting the budget ......

or not.

John Taylor explains the budget debate going on in the U.S. right now:

perhaps the biggest difference is that the House Budget brings outlays as a share of GDP back close to 2007 levels as a share of GDP, thereby removing the large spending increase of the years 2008-2009-2010, while the Administration budget effectively locks in that increase.

Arnold Kling notes:

Somehow, we could ratchet up spending by hundreds of billions at the drop of a hat. Reducing spending by less than $100 billion becomes Armageddon.

So what goes up may not come down. Physics does not apply to politics!