Highways are not a luxury?
The best military?
Unemployment compensation?
Social security?
Medicare?
Overtime pay?
FDA?
the South is gonna turn into a 3rd world country.
Ask Europe how austerity has worked out for them? In a recession or recovery, cutting govt spending is the worst thing you can do.
The World Bank just released a study on the effects of austerity in Europe, but it is Econ 101.