[Gabz]

.....tell us how you are going to cut ~40% of government spending across the board (defense, homeland security, etc.).

How about starting with EPA, NIH, NPR, NEA, FCC,(the alphabet soup list is endless) then start looking at the multi-levels of unnecessary bureaucracies all through the federal government. Cutting ~40% of government is actually rather easy, without even touching on the necessities, such as national defense.

[Your Nightmare]

How about starting with EPA, NIH, NPR, NEA, FCC,(the alphabet soup list is endless) then start looking at the multi-levels of unnecessary bureaucracies all through the federal government. Cutting ~40% of government is actually rather easy, without even touching on the necessities, such as national defense.

Then make those cuts part of the bill, because right now the FairTax effectively cuts the budgets of every department equally, across the board.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html

[SCALEMAN]

".....tell us how you are going to cut ~40% of government spending across the board (defense, homeland security, etc.)."

What % of the budget is taken up by the IRS? I know it isn't 40% but it's a start isn't it?