A new CBS News poll finds that Americans strongly prefer cutting spending to raising taxes to reduce the federal deficit. While 77 percent prefer to cut spending, just nine percent call for raising taxes. Another nine percent want to do both.Here are the numbers on what people are willing to cut. Should be some civil discussions in DC to hash that out.
Yet most Americans could not volunteer a program they'd be willing to see cut in order to reduce the deficit - only 38 percent could name a program they would support cutting. The top responses were military/defense (six percent), Social Security/Medicare (four percent) and welfare/food stamps (four percent).
However, Americans are more willing to consider cuts when presented with specific ideas, as the chart above illustrates. The most popular ideas for reducing the deficit are to reduce Social Security benefits for the wealthy, reduce the money allocated to projects in their own community, reduce farm subsidies and reduce defense spending. More than 50 percent supported reductions in each of those programs.
(CBS)
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ReplyDelete<span>I worked for the federal government for over 30 years. I can assure you that waste, fraud and mismanagement is the norm, not the exception in most government agencies. A minimum 33% of the federal government needs to be eliminated. In my experience, more is done with less. In 1987 we had one GS/13 supervisor for 12 agents. Today, that same office has one SES supervisor & 6 GS/15 supervisors & 15 GS/14 supervisors for 110 field agents, who make fewer seizures than we made 25 years ago. This is the insanity of the federal bureaucracy. Now multiply those numbers by thousands of agencies, bureau's, offices and departments.</span>
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I worked for the federal government for over 30 years. I can assure you that waste, fraud and mismanagement is the norm, not the exception in most government agencies. A minimum 33% of the federal government needs to be eliminated. In my experience, more is done with less. In 1987 we had one GS/13 supervisor for 12 agents. Today, that same office has one SES supervisor & 6 GS/15 supervisors & 15 GS/14 supervisors for 110 field agents, who make fewer seizures than we made 25 years ago. This is the insanity of the federal bureaucracy. Now multiply those numbers by thousands of agencies, bureau's, offices and departments.
ReplyDeleteI will be writing more on this issue at Bonzer Wolf Today, over the next few weeks. Please click on my name above to visit the website.
<span>I worked for the federal government for over 30 years. I can assure you that waste, fraud and mismanagement is the norm, not the exception in most government agencies. A minimum 33% of the federal government needs to be eliminated. In my experience, more is done with less. In 1987 we had one GS/13 supervisor for 12 agents. Today, that same office has one SES supervisor & 6 GS/15 supervisors & 15 GS/14 supervisors for 110 field agents, who make fewer seizures than we made 25 years ago. This is the insanity of the federal bureaucracy. Now multiply those numbers by thousands of agencies, bureau's, offices and departments.
ReplyDeleteI will be writing more on this issue at Bonzer Wolf Today, please visit my website www.bonzerwolf.com
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I propose ending the Drug War which makes illegal drugs easier for kids to get than legal beer. That is $25 bn a year right there.
ReplyDeleteOf course Bonzer's cohorts would be out of a job. Cry me a river.
Funny, I didn't see ObamaCare as a program to cut/remove? How about those crazy worthless Simulus Plans (the yet unwasted funds)?
ReplyDeletegee without straining much I can think of loads of things:
ReplyDeletedept of education, dept of agriculture, ethanol subsidies, dept of labor, nea, npr, student loans, the United Nations, the civil rights committee, the dept of energy, the tsa, obamacare, and we need to revamp all entitlement programs.
A lot of those people don't know the names of the programs but, once they are presented with choices, they can see what is not necessary. A lot of them think defense is a bigger part of the budget than it is. It's like asking college kids what the profit margin of big companies is. They all choose % that are many times the true number. They just don't know and have had a lot of propaganda.
ReplyDelete<p>Let's cut all Federal Government spending by 20% across the board each year until spending can be supported by a flat tax rate of 10%. A plan like that would force prioritization,eliminate the corruption and favors in the tax code and give reassurance to the municiple bond market, which is collapsing, if you haven't noticed.
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Cut. Everything.
ReplyDeleteReduce Social Security for the wealthy? Define "wealthy," please. The government already draws one "wealthy" line at $30,000 per year, when suddenly 85% of Social Security becomes taxable.
ReplyDeleteNow that I think of it, it's kind of weird for the government to mail you money, and then ask you to mail some of it back. Ah, well...