Tea party wanted to cut taxes but most importantly cut spending. Spending has to be cut, the only fiscally responsible thing to do. It has to be cut before even thinking about tax cuts imo. Spending is the problem, government has to shrink not grow.
I disagree totally. WASTEFUL spending needs to be cut. Properly spent government money has a multiplier effect in growing the economy and infrastructure.
As to where government spending should be cut, may I make two small suggestions::
(1) we move to a first world healthcare system. Free enterprise capitalism hasn't been a significant factor in healthcare since WWII with the tax deductibility of employer funded group health insurance and the vast rise in government paid health insurance (VA, Medicare, etc.). Our patchwork system is a pathetic joke and insanely expensive.
(2) Our military budget. For example it costs us roughly $1,000,000 to send a single soldier to Afghanistan, for example. Not to mention the insane amounts we spend to develop weapons to fight the last war. Billion dollar bombers are useless against terrorists.
Maybe if the teabaggers would actually react against the vested interests feeding off the government trough instead of being their patsies their movement might make some sense. Instead they are being used in the time honored fashion-convince part of the masses that it is another part of the masses that are the problem.