Get Down to Budget Specifics

From John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation:

I’ve said it several times this week, in several different forums: fiscal conservatives are credible only to the extent that they are specific. One of the worst spectacles in politics is to see a politician thunder against tax increases and promise to protect or raise government spending, resorting to the old stand-by of "waste, fraud, and abuse" when asked how their numbers can add up.