I've been known to struggle with my weight a good bit. Back when the wii still worked wii fit would routinely declare me obese. Probably if I had eaten and drank everything that caught my taste buds this year I'd have shot up an easy forty pounds. Instead I've held fairly steady and only gained about 2 pounds this year. If I use the government metric that means I've lost 38 pounds!! No wait.... I'm still obese; my waistline is virtually unchanged. I need to make real changes to have real effects.
Anyhow thats how I relate to U.S. spending. Exercise = taxes, Calorie intake = spending. You don't have to burn off what you don't eat. You don't have to pay for what you don't spend.
Better analogy than you know, since exercise makes you hungry this fits the Laffer curve projections that increased tax rates reduce government revenues by discouraging economic activity.
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