Would You Rather...

On last night's homework, a "would you rather" question was brought up. It asked, to meet current spending, would you rather cut Medicare and Social Security benefits or raise taxes? I was really stumped at first, because neither option would provide more or less benefits than the other, and that's when I decided on my answer: neither! That may not technically be an option, but it wouldn't be fair to choose either of those. Instead, the government should stop wasting so much money, and maybe cut some of the useless programs they spend so much on. I feel that option should be taken into consideration first before any hardworking citizen gets punished for the government's decisions.