The California Budget Project's Jean Ross offers this outstanding list of resolutions. Her fourth resolution responds to a budget-related idiocy which drives me particularly crazy.
Don't promise to cut taxes and balance the budget. I have the cover of an old New Yorker magazine on the wall of my office. It is a take-off of Dante's Inferno. At the center ring of hell? Politicians that promise to cut taxes and balance the budget. It's a good reminder that the impossible is, well, impossible.
You can see the New Yorker cover here. It's an Edward Sorel illustration from the April 21, 1997 issue. I lost my copy years ago, much to my chagrin.
Craig - You can order a replacement copy of the magazine for a nominal charge from the New Yorker. That's what I did after my original got so beat up from being moved from bulletin board to bulletin board. I tried to buy the original cover art - sometimes the New Yorker has it for sale - but unfortunately, the original of this wasn't for sale. Happy new year.