Aren't the demands by conservatives to eliminate the deficit *now* really about paying for future tax cuts?

With a two to one ratio of budget cut to tax increase.

I don't see that increasing taxes would generate significantly more revenue after the first year of that tax, unless there was some way of determining that the tax level we went to was the optimal Laffer tax level. Plus, I'd demand the spending cuts first, and then determine whether a tax increase was necessary.

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