Posted on 01/20/2011 10:04:19 AM PST by NowApproachingMidnight
Additional Program Eliminations/Spending Reforms
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 duplicative 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.
FreedomCAR 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.
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.
Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings.
Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
Subsidy to Organisation 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.
HUD Ph.D. Program.
Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
Not nearly enough
Over 10 years what a joke.
We are running 1.4 trillion dollar yearly deficits, what is 250 billion a year in cuts going to accomplish?
... it's a start.
It is a start, I guess.
We need to elimimate corporate welfare and subsidies and trim entitlements and end all grants to NGO’s.
Its a start, but cuts should be equal to our total debt in 1 year..slash and burn sale..its do or die ya’ll..our country will sink into oblivion and chaos,,eliminate all foreign aid, the IRS, just keep slashing like your lives depended on it, ours does..
It is a start. I would be impressed if it were $2.5 trillion out of the next proposed budget.
We want more cuts. We want whole agencies abolished. We want to see the lines of former bureaucrats fighting illegal aliens for meager wages picking beans by hand!
THAT'S how screwed we are.
Sounds like a nice start.
It’d be better if we could 2.5 T cut for this year.
It’s a start, but how many of these cuts are actually gonna survive to the end? That’s why we oughta triple the cuts to begin with... at least.
If only this would pass...
Complete elimination and defunding of:
IRS
FDA
HUD
Department of Education
Department of Agriculture
EPA
HSS
DHS
TSA
DOE
All Czars
The key thing really is the debt ceiling. If we hold the line on that, we can pay interest on the debt, and we can fund entitlements. NOTHING else.
Which means -- that they would actually do real entitlement reform. AND they would cut a lot of other crap.
Everyone is afraid "to go there". But it is exactly where we need to go. Coming up with a list of proposed cuts is not quite a pointless exercise, but that is not the proper starting point.
The place to start is to freeze the debt ceiling.
THEN look at how much money MUST be cut.
THEN make a list of places to cut.
We want whole agencies abolished. We want to see the lines of former bureaucrats fighting illegal aliens for meager wages picking beans by hand!
Indeed we do!!! Down with all wimpy politicians, this is our country, no time to tip toe through the tulips acting like your getting it done, slash and burn sale, sell off all of federal government posessions, complete departments, cur off the federal G’s right to tax people at all!!!!Completely out of total national debt in one year, and don’t give them the chance again ever to spend money, they are idiots once in charge..take that power from them, put them on the damn fence protecting us..I don’t care if we have dirt roads, they will be ours!!!
Good Grief...
Mike
6 billion to the UN, millions in foreign aid, global tax on gas should be eliminated until our economy becomes solvent.
it’s definitely a start. I’d sign on to all of it, but it also shows that we can’t balance the budget without whacking the big ones: SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, Interest on the Federal deficit.
-close all foreign bases not needed for current terrorist effort, i.e. many in Europe and South Korea.
-Copays for all Medicare/Medicaid services.
-Take a serious look at SS Disability.
-And the big controversial one, eliminate interest payments by paying with printed dollars instead of treasury bonds. We’re doing it anyway, via the Federal Reserve, why not just let the taxpayer print money directly and cut out the middleman? As an added bonus, it will be recognized that Federal Deficits == Inflation, which might put a governor on our politicians, hopefully.
You are correct!!
A good start.
Today or tomorrow would be fine.
NPR? Definitely should be on the list, especially given their leftist and globalist (and global warming) agendas.
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