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Rand Paul’s Budget Kills Departments of Commerce, Education, Housing, and Energy
Pajamas Media ^ | 03/25/2013 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 03/25/2013 11:23:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) today introduced a budget he says will balance the budget in five years with $2.3 trillion in tax cuts.

Paul’s “Platform to Revitalize America” brings spending below the historical average of 19.1 percent of GDP in the first year and spends $9.6 trillion less over the next 10 years based on the current Congressional Budget Office baseline. It achieves a $17 billion surplus in FY2018 and reforms entitlement programs — Medicare recipients, for example, would receive the same healthcare plan as members of Congress.

It replenishes $126 billion to the Defense Department stripped in sequestration and puts an annual cap on foreign aid at $5 billion. The plan also repeals ObamaCare and Dodd Frank.

Paul’s budget kills four government agencies: the departments of Commerce, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy. It also privatizes the Transportation Security Administration.

“Washington has a serious and reckless spending problem that must be re-evaluated. American families across the country are required to live by a budget and Congress should be no different – every taxpayer dollar needs to be spent more wisely. Therefore, I am offering a plan that will address this country’s looming debt crisis in a truly timely manner – balancing the budget in just five years,” Paul said. “The time has come for a change that will restore fiscal order in this country, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that this happens.”

His budget includes a flat tax and lifts barriers to domestic energy exploration and production.

UPDATE: Late this evening the Senate voted on Paul’s budget as an amendment to the continuing resolution. It failed 18-81.

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KEYWORDS: agitprop; budget; demagogue; departments; istandwithrand; randpaul
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To: SeekAndFind

HOORAY Rand! BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM. “Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - Bastiat

DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. DISMANTLE domestic socialist collectives.

live - free - republic


21 posted on 03/25/2013 11:46:25 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like a good start.


22 posted on 03/25/2013 11:46:57 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind
So Rand Paul thinks it would be a good idea to eliminate;
The Department of Commerce which actually has impeded commerce. The Department of Education which has never educated one child The Department of Housing which has done everything in it's power to destroy the housing market. The Department of Energy which has never created one erg of energy. Sounds good to me.
23 posted on 03/25/2013 11:47:03 AM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Bald, Ugly, Fat and Broke in Arizona)
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To: SeekAndFind
A good start. There ARE more.
24 posted on 03/25/2013 11:49:01 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: BarnacleCenturion

not single democrat on that list

I like Rand’s idea a lot

also eliminate the EPA , FEC ,FCC , OFFCp and IRS


25 posted on 03/25/2013 11:49:39 AM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: SeekAndFind

Many, many more need to be eliminated. DHS for one...


26 posted on 03/25/2013 11:53:11 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is a lot of national defense infrastructure outside of DoD. You could considate on the one hand. On the other, important programs that support strategic defense or intel gathering capabilities, if consolidated, could be lost in budget battles to tactical types who only think in numbers of tanks or fighter jets. Keeping them separate preserves them from infighting, but does not reduce their important roles. Other examples include NGA, CIA, other and three letter organizations that dont like to be lumped in together both for the reasons stated and others.


27 posted on 03/25/2013 11:53:58 AM PDT by Magnum44 (.45 Caliber - because having to shoot twice is just silly)
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To: SeekAndFind
Rand's budget has the right priorities from what I see.

It replenishes $126 billion to the Defense Department stripped in sequestration and puts an annual cap on foreign aid at $5 billion. The plan also repeals ObamaCare and Dodd Frank.

Excellent, the Defense Department is the one thing the federal government really should be devoting significant resources towards.

Paul’s budget kills four government agencies: the departments of Commerce, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy. It also privatizes the Transportation Security Administration.

Wonderful!

28 posted on 03/25/2013 11:54:48 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: rurgan

That list tells you what states to live in.

Notice 2 from most. Although WY, KY & KS would be too cold for me. OK gets pretty cold too. But TX looks better every day.


29 posted on 03/25/2013 11:55:29 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Got a letter from Gov. Palin in reply to my Dad sending her my picture from a TEA party rally.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if Paul’s planned tax revenue includes the costs of future wars, nation building or domestic recessions.


30 posted on 03/25/2013 11:57:01 AM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

McConnell?


31 posted on 03/25/2013 12:02:00 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Longbow1969

RE: Wonderful!

Unfortunately, anything wonderful does not pass the Senate. This budget went down to defeat 81-18.


32 posted on 03/25/2013 12:03:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: rurgan

RE: also eliminate the EPA , FEC ,FCC , OFFCp and IRS

What do you propose to replace the IRS with?


33 posted on 03/25/2013 12:04:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Tupelo

He failed, but now the dialogue can begin. Let the socialists and their presstitutes defend these three agencies. It was wise to put the money back into defense, but he could instead break it out as grants back to the states to spend as they please. Then it might have passed.


34 posted on 03/25/2013 12:04:45 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ooh, sounds devastating.


35 posted on 03/25/2013 12:05:41 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now that Paul admitted on FNS that he is for giving illegals path to voting and claims they are ‘natural conservatives’ who he never met one who wanted a handout, we can forget about this.

His new Dreamer voters want all these things and more, they want Obama-care now


36 posted on 03/25/2013 12:06:14 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: bicyclerepair

AZ is fine, and plenty warm. Mentally Ill McCain wasn’t going to support anything Rand Paul did, anyway, but his days are numbered and his state is much more conservative than he is. No danger yet that AZ is going to go the way of CO.


37 posted on 03/25/2013 12:08:12 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: SeekAndFind
Unfortunately, anything wonderful does not pass the Senate. This budget went down to defeat 81-18.

Yes, but it's a start.

It's especially wonderful because it sounds like the kind of budget that will satisfy almost ALL the grass roots. It returns some money to defense which many conservatives (including myself) believe should be funded at a high level, slashes a bunch of worthless departments that most people won't miss, and moves to balance the budget in a reasonably short time frame (5 years), and includes tax cuts too.

This is the kind of "big idea" that we need to change the dynamic and capture the public's attention.

38 posted on 03/25/2013 12:10:20 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: goodnesswins

It’s a start...


Sorry, it’s kabuki. McConnell has obviously made a deal with Reid to allow some meaningless red meat votes to mollify the GOP base. The question is, what did McConnell give up to get these votes?

We need vigorous debate and credible opposition to the Dems. Until we get that, everyone inside the beltway not named Ted Cruz is part of the problem.


39 posted on 03/25/2013 12:10:23 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: SeekAndFind

yeah and?


40 posted on 03/25/2013 12:11:51 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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