Federal Gov Budget Basics: Or Why the Budget Will Never Be Balanced

Federal Gov Budget Basics: Or Why the Budget Will Never Be Balanced

A somewhat wonkish look at the federal government's budget and what it would take to balance it.

The tl;dr version: Politicians spend absolute truckloads of our money, borrow/print even more, and there's nowhere near enough political will (driven primarily by the desires of constituents) to change it.