"But the actual effect of cutting taxes below the amount necessary to sustain current levels of government spending only underscores the unforgiving lawlikeness of Wagner’s Law."<p>I think this article is a little dishonest. If you look at the budget law, There is an automatic built in percentage increase every year to "maintain current levels". This is automatic and makes no assumption that a better process or method has been developed to make these current levels sufficient on the funding that was received from the previous year.<p>You essentially have compound interest build automatically into the budget process.