In Tuesday’s debate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney once again made clear that he thinks cutting defense spending is a bad idea, even at a time when he supports reducing the size of government. The former Massachusetts governor was answering a question about the debt deal supercommittee. “[I]f in fact [the supercommittee] can’t find an agreement, you’re going to have a trigger with automatic cuts, including defense,” moderator Charlie Rose said. So would Romney support compromising?
“The answer is to cut federal spending,” Romney replied. “The answer is to cap how much the federal government can spend as a percentage of our economy and have a balanced budget amendment. And the second part of the answer is to get our economy to grow, because the idea of just cutting and cutting and taxing more — I understand mathematically those things work, but nothing works as well as getting the economy going.”
