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Posted on 05/04/2018 8:32:21 AM PDT by caww
When Schumer had an opportunity to help pass a bipartisan transparency bill last week, he refused....
The bill in question is the 'Taxpayers Right to Know Act'....It would require federal agencies to post an inventory of their programs. This inventory would detail how much programs cost, how many employees are required to run them, who the intended beneficiaries are, and how effective they have been.....It’s a good-government bill that 'combines transparency with performance metrics' to try to find out 'what is working well and what isn't.'
The bill was such a no-brainer, noncontroversial step forward in the transparency movement that it passed the House of Representatives several times 'without a single member voting against it.'
Still, Schumer objected on April 25 because he has a “serious objection with the reporting requirements.” According to Schumer, reporting on programs, costs, and performance are the “types of questions [that] could fill up volumes and volumes. There’s no good answers to them. There’s no clear answer to them. This law will not make it any easier to discern what programs are working and what programs are not.”
Then, he got to the real issue when he added that revealing this information could lead to the “slashing of programs.”
Imagine that: Taxpayers discovering the programs they are paying for aren’t working and then asking Congress to eliminate them or reduce funding. The horror.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Better idea:
The Grand Sunset law. By which every federal program has to be re-authorized every year.
The ‘Taxpayers Right to Know Act’ would give GAO and Congress the information and tools for a more effective and efficient government. Doing so ‘would yield enormous benefits to taxpayers and beneficiaries’ alike.
According to the article they certainly have identified ‘why’ the GAO isn’t even as profficient in doing it’s job as it’s Comptroller Gene Daro stated the difference it would be if they did have that info...
....” But GAO does not have enough information to fully leverage their agency’s skills..... he recently testified that “one of the limitations we have had when doing that overlap and duplication work is the lack of cost information, budgetary information for many of these programs. Once you get the list, that is really the next thing that needs to be put in place.”
According to Schumer, reporting on programs, costs, and performance are the “types of questions [that] could fill up volumes and volumes. There’s no good answers to them. There’s no clear answer to them. This law will not make it any easier to discern what programs are working and what programs are not.”
And this differs from Mueller's witch hunt, how? Thanks caww.
If government programs were required to report it could cut political embezzlement to a fraction and gut the finances of the Democratic Party. So, no, Schumer won’t vote for it.
Well that’s just it....the Democratic Party has and is so very corrupted they are fighting to keep it ALL from being ‘exposed’ for just what it is! What we’re seeing is a desperate fight to retain the revenue sources these fat cats have filled their own pockets with as well as the economic power they are quickly loosing.
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