hypercrites

I respectfully disagree.  I believe the tax burden is high enough, and the scope of government ought to be shrunk to fit the available revenue.

I agree completely.  Compromise or moderation is not always the right answer.  If you doctor told you your body was riddled with cancer you certainly wouldn't want to find some middle-ground and agree to removing 50% of it.

Take a look at the past 100 years of government spending.  There has been no compromise there.  It has gone up every single year.  Even the great fiscal conservative Ronald Reagan didn't cut overall spending, he simply changed spending priorities and slowed the rate of increase.  If there were true moderation and compromise the graph would have ups and downs but the trend line would be flat.  The trend line is not flat, not even close.

That said, I could sign-on to a tax increase but it would have to be accompanied by real true spending cuts but the tax increase would have to affect all Americans equally.  No targeting the few (wealthy) just because it's popular with the many.   That ain't liberty.

In my opinion the USA is headed toward a financial cliff and instead of driving over the edge at 60 MPH we compromise and plunge into despair at 30 MPH isn't a sufficient improvement.