You can’t justify tax cuts, etc., by saying you are going rid of fraud and waste. We need to get rid of fraud and waste, but we need to do it for its own sake; i.e., why should government waste money or allow fraud. We are not doing it so we can cut taxes or pay for something else.
A related thought: If you think the government needs to spend more money on X or Y, say how you are going raise taxes to pay for the cost of X or Y. And it can’t be a matter of raising taxes on somebody else; it has to be taxes on you.
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UPDATE 3/12/25 3:00 pm): Corrected a typo in the second paragraph.
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