Tax increases? No way -- cut the spending

And now the hard work begins! With the 2011 budget in the rear view window, Congress has to get serious about a 2012 budget and the debt ceiling. And, it couldn't start a minute too soon. The country is on an unsustainable path of spending more and more and more. According to the Wall Street Journal, domestic discretionary spending grew by 6 percent in 2008, 11 percent in 2009 and 14 percent in 2010. Thanks to the work of Congress the 2011 budget spending shrinks by 4 percent. But there is more work to do. We need spending limits that force Congress to do the right thing and revisions of the budget baseline so that each year's budget begins at last year's spending levels, not with automatic increases. Budget discipline isn't a Republican or a Democratic issue, it's a common sense issue. American families know how to keep their budgets under control, it's time the government did too.