. >> diane rogers of the concord coalition.e said disperse the pain broadly, but we've been dispersing the wealth without getting anything back. we've had lots of tax cuts, medical program which was unfunded. we've been spending pro lifically, haven't we? >> we've been giving away a lot of stuff without paying for it, and that's the problem, we've been on an unsustainable spending path. and, you know, our largest components of the federal budget, the biggest challenges on that unsustainable path happen to be things we're fond of, and we're not willing to talk about ways to ratchet down that spending that don't just sound like cutting waste fraud and abuse. even if we control spending better and even if we cut away the waste fraud and abuse that's in the budget, it's not going to help our situation. it's not preventing us from having to make tough choices, and there's a whole other side of the federal budget that we forget that we do a lot of spending on, and that's the tax side of the budget. the tax system is actually not just