The spending the Democrats want to cut: ...nothing.

[joeydb]

The key thing is that the Democrats don't care what the math says. The fact that they want the tax hikes "on the rich" (repeated ad nauseum like a reflex) and will not talk about cutting non-defense spending is symptomatic of that reality.

The revenue produced by raising taxes will amount to about 8 or 9 days of federal spending @ $10B per day.

With defecits over $1T, or 100 days annually of unfunded spending on average, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that an aversion to cutting spending is absurd.