A puzzler is how a tax cut can be justified because times are good and there is a projected surplus while on the other hand a tax cut can be justified on the basis of boosting the economy. As someone said somewhere, if we just plain abolished taxes, we'd get along swimmingly...

I'm reading a very good book, written by Chris Hedges, a war reporter for many years. It's called 'WAR - a Force That Gives Us Meaning'. Among much else, he talks about the rhetoric of war and how difficult it is not to get sucked into its mindset.