Common Sense Commentary: Taxes represent the people's
time,
talent,
labor, and
personal/family
needs those taxes could have furnished.
In other words, their lives.
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This would be a good start, but it's going
to take more deep cuts to even begin to solve the problem.
List of Republican cuts. Clearly, Paul
Ryan knows
how to make the cuts necessary to get this
country back on.... or at least toward the track.
Notice S.S.. and the military are NOT on
this list
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These are all the programs that the new
Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end and pass it on to as many
as you can.
*
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.
* Save America's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
*
International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
* Legal
Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment
for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the
Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program -- $250
million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress),
authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow
Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings..
* Cut in half funding
for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
* John
C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
* Community
Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and
Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in
Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% --
$600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual
savings.
* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual
savings.
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530
million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.
* Exchange Programs
for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in
Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail
Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning -- $318
million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million
annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual
savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15
billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27
billion annual savings.
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million
annual savings.
* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.
*
Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million
annually.
* U.S. Agency for
International Development -- $1.39
billion annual savings.
* General Assistance to District of Columbia
-- $210 million annual savings...
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.
* Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million
savings over ten years.
* No funding
for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.
*
End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of
government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1
billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for
some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the
Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion
savings over ten years.
* Require
collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded
union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15
billion total savings.
* Eliminate death
gratuity for Members of Congress.WHAT???
*
Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings
WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market
Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14
million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the
National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual
savings.
* Eliminate fund for Obamacare
administrative costs -- $900 million
savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million
savings..WHY?????
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit
Reduction Check-Off Act.
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TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten
Years
My
question is, what is all
this doing in the budget in the first place?
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