Webzter
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would politicians and the US public support tax increases to fund the promises we made to the military?
We hired the politicians to represent our collective interests. One of our collective interests was a strong military that we could use to project our ideals and protect our freedoms. Out of that came up with an incentive package to attract the needed talent at the needed levels to fulfill that goal. This included bringing in people that might have otherwise chosen alternate career paths.
If that's no longer one of our collective interests then we need to get that message to our politicians so they can react accordingly going forward. However, that shouldn't cause us to suddenly decide it's ok to change the rules midway through the game.
Of course, all this assumes that one buys into the idea that we're actually being represented by congress and that they listen to their constituents
The bigger issue may be that we should have been raising taxes and/or cutting spending all along but kept putting it off(and/or not spending in the first place... eg, two wars and a NATO action going on right now, others in the past). We may be at a point now where there's no way to push it off to another generation and no way to make adjustments painlessly.