If you grant that government has a role to play in every facet of life, you’ve already lost the argument and the rest is just details.

Andy McCarthy in The Corner:

You will not be able to nickle and dime your way to fiscal health over decades of “out years” — the demagogues will say that you are “destroying education, healthcare, retirement benefits, clean air, scientific research, edible food, the planet, etc., etc.,” even though what you’re really trying to reverse is government’s intrusion into these matters so that more efficient actors (like you, your community, and the market) can make better choices about what to do with our money.