CMV: Democrats should support a balanced budget

For all the right wing rhetoric about fiscal responsibility, the debt, etc., Conservatives tend to increase the deficit by cutting taxes.

We currently have a 2T deficit, and there isn't going to be sufficient room to cut spending to close the gap. Programs like SS and Medicare are too popular to make significant cuts to, and even defense spending I doubt can be cut enough without causing a significant number of republican voters to start worrying about out national defense.

So where will closing the budget now and in the future as SS and interest on the debt continue to grow? Through taxes, and namely, through taxing the wealthiest significantly. Again, taxes on the working class are not going to fly for many republican voters, so the only way taxes can be raised significantly are on the wealthiest. This is completely in line with democratic policies.

At this point, it seems bizarre to me that democrats don't start pushing for balanced budgets as a way to force republicans to stop cutting taxes on the rich.