YouCut proposals for week 5

Big Bureaucracy ^ | June 18th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

[Big Bureaucracy]

The Republican Whip in the House Eric Cantor posted the proposals for spending cuts for the week on his YouCut web page. The public is encouraged to vote and the winning idea will be voted on the floor - for real.

- Prohibit Hiring New IRS Agents to Enforce the Health Care Law Savings of $5 billion to $10 billion over 10 years

- Terminate Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners Program Savings of $87.5 million over ten years

- Terminate Taxpayer-Subsidized Political Party Conventions Savings of approximately $33.6 million every four years ($67.2 million over ten years) - Require Collection of Unpaid Taxes From Federal Employees Savings of potentially $1 billion +

- Terminate Funding For The Duplicative National Drug Intelligence Center Savings of $440 million over ten years

Vote you choice for spending cuts here

Submit your own proposal here

Last week winner (week 4) was:

Sell Excess Federal Property Potential savings of up to $15 billion

The proposal for week 4 was defeated in the up-or-down vote 241-189 See how your representative voted here

[ErnBatavia]

Sell Excess Federal Property Potential savings of up to $15 billion

There's a Veteran's Administration GOLF COURSE circling the West Los Angeles VA Hospital; this is smack dab in the midst of the Brentwood/BelAir/Beverly Hills area.

It's virtually unused......

[JohnD9207]

How about an across the board 10% cut in EVERY government spending account combined with closing the department of education, the department of Homeland Security.

Wonder how much my idea would save the Country?

[smalltownslick]

Eliminate grants, eliminate foreign aid

[Bookie1066]

How about just eliminate the federal Government. That would be a good start.